Missing nature during COVID took a mental toll on young adults’

Skipping out on time spent in parks and other forms of nature during COVID's first year took a toll on the mental health of teens and young adults.

Laura Oleniacz - NC State • futurity
Nov. 24, 2021 ~8 min

4 unexpected places where adults can learn science

Want to observe native bees? Or seek out invasive species? There are many ways to get hands-on science learning. An expert on adult STEM education suggests four places to start.

Jill Zarestky, Assistant Professor of Education, Colorado State University • conversation
Nov. 9, 2021 ~7 min


Biden restores protection for national monuments Trump shrank: 5 essential reads

The Biden administration is restoring full protection to three national monuments that President Trump sought to cut down drastically.

Jennifer Weeks, Senior Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation • conversation
Oct. 8, 2021 ~9 min

Fewer people used city parks during first COVID-19 summer

Fewer people used urban parks during summer of 2020, a drop that more likely affected minorities and those from lower-income backgrounds.

Laura Oleniacz-UNC • futurity
Sept. 30, 2021 ~7 min

Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies

Two urban policy experts explain why taking down highways that have isolated low-income and minority neighborhoods for decades is an important part of the pending infrastructure bill.

Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University • conversation
Sept. 7, 2021 ~9 min

London's Marble Arch Mound was a fiasco in a city losing so many green spaces – but pop-up parks can work

Pop-up spaces can be successful, they just need to be better thought through and created with urban ecology in mind rather than economics.

Ian Mell, Reader in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester • conversation
Aug. 17, 2021 ~8 min

South Korea is bringing back bears in a country of 52 million people – I went to find out how

Even in small, densely populated countries, reintroducing large wildlife is possible.

Joshua Powell, London NERC DTP PhD Researcher in Conservation Biology, UCL • conversation
July 26, 2021 ~7 min

Don't hike so close to me: How the presence of humans can disturb wildlife up to half a mile away

Outdoor recreation is booming across the US, but research shows that the presence of humans – or the trails they hike and ski on – can have harmful effects on wildlife at less-than-close range.

Sarah Reed, Affiliate Faculty in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University • conversation
July 14, 2021 ~9 min


Study marks major step to creating a system to study quantum phase transitions

In 1934, physicist Eugene Wigner made a theoretical prediction that suggested how a metal that normally conducts electricity could turn into a nonconducting insulator when the density of electrons is reduced. Now a team of Harvard physicists has finally experimentally documented this transition.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
June 30, 2021 ~5 min

Yellowstone is losing its snow as the climate warms, and that means widespread problems for water and wildlife

The area's iconic national parks are home to grizzlies, elk and mountain snowfall that feeds some of the country's most important rivers. A new report show the changes underway as temperatures rise.

Bryan Shuman, Professor of Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology, University of Wyoming • conversation
June 23, 2021 ~9 min

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