Many experts agree that self-driving vehicles will be part of our transportation future. Dan Sperling of the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC-Davis says that could lead to streets clogged with driverless cars. Sperling: “With automation, people can do anything […]

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This month’s “This is Not Cool” original video, produced by independent videographer and YCC regular contributor Peter Sinclair, explores the creative science communication initiatives of four different scientists. Ecohydrologist, researcher, and science storyteller Emily Fairfax of the University of Colorado […]

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In New England’s forests, wildflowers are some of the first signs of spring – often blooming before trees leaf out and shade the forest floor. Heberling: “This high light period before the trees leaf out is really critical for how […]

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Dear Sara, Are carbon offsets for real? For many years, we’ve purchased carbon offsets when we travel by whatever means. Have we fallen for a scam? I suppose that like many opportunities, some could be valid, others, not. How can […]

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Craig Mathews is an avid hunter and fisherman. Forty years ago, he moved to West Yellowstone, Montana, and fell in love with the wilderness there. Mathews: “I’ve seen grizzly bears, big horn sheep, mule deer, white tailed deer, wolverines. And […]

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Let’s buy for a moment the well-traveled viewpoint that the news media like nothing better than a good crisis. Nothing like a crisis, and better yet two, to kick reporters’ and editors’, let alone media bean counters’, adrenaline into overdrive. […]

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Mass media reporting on climate change over the past three decades “has not been, for the most part, journalism’s finest hour.” With clearly implicit understatement, book author and journalist-turned-activist Bill McKibben opened a recent #CoveringClimateNow conference at Columbia University’s journalism […]

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In the throes of final exams, graduation parties, and turning tassels, the high school class of 2019 is staring down a future full of climate challenges. The class, most born in 2001 and 2002, hasn’t experienced a year without record-breaking […]

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Along many parts of the U.S. coastline, tall sea grasses grow in salt marshes. Currin: “It’s a sea of green in the spring and summer!” Carolyn Currin of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says these wetland habitats provide homes […]

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Large storms are not the only cause of power outages. In the Los Angeles area, rising temperatures could lead to more frequent blackouts. Stephanie Pincetl of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability co-authored a recent report about how […]

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