A timer can shorten your shower even when you have no incentive to save water – new study

As droughts become more widespread in tourist hotspots, research finds that timers in showers help tourists and university students shorten their showers and save water.

Xavier Font, Professor of Sustainability Marketing, University of Surrey • conversation
April 16, 2024 ~6 min

Asthma meds have become shockingly unaffordable − but relief may be on the way

An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?

Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Villanova School of Law • conversation
March 8, 2024 ~7 min


E-bikes are freewheeling through rain and over hills, with huge promise for sustainable transport in rural tourist areas

Research shows that rain and hilly terrain doesn’t put people off e-bikes.

Ian Philips, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds • conversation
Feb. 6, 2024 ~7 min

Why monkeys attack people - a primate expert explains

Tourists can do a number of things to avoid dangerous encounters with monkeys.

Tracie McKinney, Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, University of South Wales • conversation
Jan. 31, 2024 ~6 min

California and Florida grew quickly on the promise of perfect climates in the 1900s – today, they lead the country in climate change risks

From semitropical playgrounds to life-endangering climate risks: Going back over a century, California’s and Florida’s growth has been predicated on climate – and promises of the good life.

Henry Knight Lozano, Senior Lecturer in American History & Director of Liberal Arts, University of Exeter • conversation
Sept. 5, 2023 ~10 min

Wildfires are a severe blow to Maui's tourism-based economy, but other iconic destinations have come back from similar disasters

Wildfires on Maui are a crippling blow to the island’s tourism industry, which generates half of its jobs. But New Orleans and Kauai show that comebacks are possible.

Rich Harrill, Research Professor of Hospitality and Tourism and Director, International Tourism Research Institute, University of South Carolina • conversation
Aug. 11, 2023 ~6 min

Maui wildfires: Extra logistical challenges hinder government's initial response when disasters strike islands

An expert on Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria explains why it’s hard for the US to deliver disaster aid in places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University • conversation
Aug. 10, 2023 ~8 min

Maui's deadly wildfires burn through Lahaina – it's a reminder of the growing risk to communities that once seemed safe

Human exposure to wildfires in the US more than doubled in the past two decades. A climate scientist looks at who is at risk and why.

Mojtaba Sadegh, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University • conversation
Aug. 9, 2023 ~6 min


Deadly wildfires burn across Maui – it's a reminder of the growing risk to communities that once seemed safe

Human exposure to wildfires in the US more than doubled in the past two decades. A climate scientist looks at who is at risk and why.

Mojtaba Sadegh, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University • conversation
Aug. 9, 2023 ~6 min

Maui wildfires burn through Lahaina – it's a reminder of the growing risk to communities that once seemed safe

Human exposure to wildfires in the US more than doubled in the past two decades. A climate scientist looked at who is at risk and why.

Mojtaba Sadegh, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University • conversation
Aug. 9, 2023 ~6 min

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