In India, much of the population breathes air that is 10 times more polluted than what the World Health Organization considers safe. In a study released in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Yale economists Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, and co-authors examine a cap-and-trade market for particulate p...
Experts validate the surprising accuracy of plant identifications on iNaturalist, enhancing conservation data in Western Australia.
Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a week because I am off to a conference this week, the annual meeting of the Society for Military H…
Copper instruments discovered at a 4,000-year-old site in Oman echo ritual influences from South Asia.
In estuaries—the transitional zones between rivers and the sea—fresh and salt water are constantly battling for dominance. But due to climate change, the saltwater is gaining ground. New research by Utrecht University's Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (IMAU) in collaboration with Delta...
Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for Military History – conferences always leave me a bit tired and slow to get back to writing, e…
Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers
First Global Comparison of Glacier Mass Change: They’re All Melting, and Fast
By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its contribution to sea level rise.
A new study outlines some of the biggest threats that environmental change poses to the worldwide production of cacao,...
This is the final part of our five part (I, II, III, IV) series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last time, we looked at the orc siege and marveled at both their lack of wo…
Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.
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