Who are today’s climate activists? Dispelling 3 big myths for Earth Month

Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.

Dana R. Fisher, Director of the Center for Environment, Community & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service, American University • conversation
April 2, 2024 • ~8 min

How ‘Dune’ became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement − and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology

When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.

Devin Griffiths, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • conversation
March 15, 2024 • ~10 min

How Argentina’s protesters are responding to a new president who wants to end environmental protections and sell off natural resources

The ultra-right Javier Milei has already set back environmentalism by decades.

Paula Serafini, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London • conversation
Jan. 31, 2024 • ~5 min

A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy

This isn’t the first time that US authorities have criminalized civil disobedience or framed grassroots organizing as a conspiracy.

David Pellow, Department Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Global Environmental Justice Project, University of California, Santa Barbara • conversation
Dec. 1, 2023 • ~12 min

Movement helps kids learn letter sounds

Children who use their bodies to shape letter sounds improve their spelling skills more than those who receive traditional classroom instruction, a study finds.

U. Copenhagen • futurity
Nov. 13, 2023 • ~6 min

450M-year-old organism comes back to life in robot form

A "Softbotics" replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed 450 million years ago, could offer new insight into the evolution of locomotion.

Kaitlyn Landram-Carnegie Mellon • futurity
Nov. 7, 2023 • ~6 min

To sense the world, we all shimmy like a knifefish

An electric knifefish does a shimmy in the water for the same reason a dog sniffs or a human glances around a new place—to make sense of their surroundings.

Roberto Molar Candanosa-Johns Hopkins • futurity
Oct. 31, 2023 • ~6 min

Keeping your cool in a warming world: 8 steps to help manage eco-anxiety

A therapist shares advice for harnessing your stress over climate change and other environmental harms and putting it to work.

Karen Magruder, Assistant Professor of Practice in Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington • conversation
Sept. 18, 2023 • ~8 min

AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models

With Style2Fab, makers can rapidly customize models of 3D-printable objects, such as assistive devices, without hampering their functionality.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Sept. 15, 2023 • ~8 min

The case of the missing Lyme vaccine

Science can protect your dog, but not you. Expert explains why '90s vaccine for humans disappeared and details efforts to develop a new one.

Alvin Powell • harvard
July 24, 2023 • ~10 min

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