by Admin | Aug 30, 2019 | Information
You know how cats and dogs can get parasites like roundworms? Well, their larger kin can, too. And just recently a team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research discovered that roundworms go back at least as far as big...
by Admin | Aug 23, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
New research from Montana State University shows that with wildfires in the west becoming inevitable, communities that rethink what it means to live with them rather than simply rebuilding will fare better in the long run. The paper, recently published in the journal...
by Admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
While medieval Europe was recovering quite well from a long period of excessive cold and rain, things were a little different in the land that would one day become the Southwestern United States. Between the 9th and 15th centuries, about a dozen megadroughts—that is,...
by Admin | Jul 12, 2019 | Climate Change, Information
While it’s not exactly shocking news that climate change denial is rife in the Trump administration, sometimes the sheer hubris of Trump officials in their censorship of scientific press releases just slaps you in the face. One such case came to light recently: a...
by Admin | Jun 14, 2019 | Climate Change, Information
According to new research from Georgia State University, the timing of hurricanes is one of the primary factors influencing its impact on the spread of mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile Virus, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. Researchers from Georgia State, and...