Like other natural hazards, wildfire cannot fully be prevented. However, it is not only possible but urgent to prepare for it, and to get people out of harm’s way when conditions are life-threatening.
Today, thanks to intellectual property rights and often well-intentioned laws, our ability to share seeds is restricted.
Given the concerns we’ve heard from homeowners in our research, the defeat of the fracking measure demonstrates the industry’s economic power and political clout.
Economic issues on which the election outcome will make a meaningful difference: trade and infrastructure.
What this study suggests is that the climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we previously thought.
Diverting food byproducts back to the farm, where they can help retain water and nutrients, is a way to make our food system more efficient.
School of Education Assistant Professor OiYan Poon writes in The Conversation that when it comes to the ongoing debate over affirmative action in U.S. college admissions, both opponents and supporters among Asian Americans have plenty to say.
Both sides of the debate had a flawed understanding of fundamental aspects of how affirmative action is practiced in the United States.
As sociologists who have researched oil and gas drilling, we think this measure would enhance the rights of those who live near these sites.