What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding

A sea level scientist explains the two main ways climate change is threatening the coasts.

Jianjun Yin, Associate Professor of Geoscience, University of Arizona • conversation
Feb. 16, 2022 • ~6 min

What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 10-12 inches more by midcentury with frequent coastal flooding

A sea level scientist explains the two main ways climate change is threatening the coasts.

Jianjun Yin, Associate Professor of Geoscience, University of Arizona • conversation
Feb. 16, 2022 • ~6 min

What's causing sea level rise? It's now expected to add 10-12 inches by midcentury

A sea level scientist explains the two main ways climate change is threatening the coasts.

Jianjun Yin, Associate Professor of Geoscience, University of Arizona • conversation
Feb. 16, 2022 • ~6 min

The fastest population growth in the West's wildland-urban interface is in areas most vulnerable to wildfires

A new study maps vegetation’s fire risk across the West and shows where population in the highest-risk areas from California to Texas is booming.

Park Williams, Associate Professor of Hydroclimateology, University of California, Los Angeles • conversation
Feb. 7, 2022 • ~8 min

Those at risk for severe COVID-19 often least likely to get monoclonal antibodies

“Monoclonal antibodies should first go to patients at the highest risk of death from COVID-19, but the opposite happened ..., ” says a Harvard Chan School researcher.

Karen Feldscher • harvard
Feb. 7, 2022 • ~4 min

The fastest population growth in the West's wildland fringes is in ecosystems most vulnerable to wildfires

A new study maps vegetation’s fire risk across the West and shows where population in the highest-risk areas from California to Texas is booming.

Park Williams, Associate Professor of Hydroclimateology, University of California, Los Angeles • conversation
Feb. 7, 2022 • ~8 min

New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark

A street-by-street analysis shows where the risks are rising fastest and also lays bare the inequities of who has to endure America’s crippling flood problem.

Paul Bates, Professor of Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol • conversation
Jan. 31, 2022 • ~9 min

New insights from biology can help overcome siloed thinking in cancer clinical trials and treatment

Fat cells and cancer cells talk to each other. Specialists in both systems can do the same.

Gerald Denis, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Boston University • conversation
Jan. 28, 2022 • ~7 min

Don't look up: several asteroids are heading towards Earth – here's how we deal with threats in real life

There’s no need to panic about the asteroids heading ‘close’ to Earth in January.

Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University • conversation
Jan. 7, 2022 • ~6 min

Don’t Look Up shows bashing people over the head with facts does not work

Will Don’t Look Up wake people up? Here’s what the research on climate communication says.

Josh Ettinger, Doctoral Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford • conversation
Jan. 6, 2022 • ~7 min

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