California Is Solving Its Water Problems by Flooding Its Best Farmland
[ad_1] “I remember taking so many tours out there,” said Rentner, “and all the public funding agency partners would go, ‘OK, so you have a million dollars in hand, and…
How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold
[ad_1] Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect someone in the Arctic—like high BMI and faster metabolism—could…
20 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2023
[ad_1] It’s been hard recently to think about anything other than the wars and humanitarian crises raging around the world. Climate change has left its mark in what was almost…
Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
[ad_1] The data scientist and author Hannah Ritchie expands on these examples in her upcoming book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to…
Spying on Beavers From Space Could Help Save California
[ad_1] For the first time in four centuries, it’s good to be a beaver. Long persecuted for their pelts and reviled as pests, the dam-building rodents are today hailed by…
A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry
[ad_1] The early 1970s were the real heyday of beef in the US. It was the era of stroganoff, stews, and casseroles, steak lunches and 60-cent hamburgers. It was also…