What's at stake in Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, union vote: 5 questions answered
Winning the election doesn’t automatically mean workers are unionized and get a labor contract. It means only they have the right to negotiate for one.
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Africa's two elephant species are both endangered, due to poaching and habitat loss
An international conservation organization has changed its listing from “vulnerable” for all African elephants to “endangered” for savanna elephants and “critically endangered” for forest elephants.
Robinhood app makes Wall Street feel like a game to win – instead of a place where you can lose your life savings in a New York minute
Wall Street has long been likened to a casino. Robinhood, an investment app that just filed plans for an initial public offering, makes the comparison more apt than ever.
Wild weather: 4 essential reads about tornadoes and thunderstorms
These four articles from The Conversation’s archives explain how tornadoes form, why night tornadoes are more deadly, and how in rare cases thunderstorms can take a different but equally destructive form – a derecho.
Growing cannabis indoors produces a lot of greenhouse gases – just how much depends on where it's grown
CSU researchers found that growing pot indoors leads to higher greenhouse gas emissions in the Mountain West, Midwest, Alaska and Hawaii than on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
How do arctic foxes hunt in the snow?
Maybe you’ve seen a video clip of a fluffy white fox moving carefully through a frozen landscape. Suddenly it leaps into the air and dive-bombs straight down into the snow. If so, you’ve witnessed the unusual hunting skills of an arctic fox.
How many people get ‘long COVID’ – and who is most at risk?
Tens of millions of Americans have been infected with and survived COVID-19. Many survivors get back to normal health within two weeks of getting sick, but for some, symptoms can persist for months.
I analyzed all of Trump's tweets to find out what he was really saying
In those 20,301 tweets I learned something fundamental about how the 45th president of the United States used Twitter to tell his own story.
Thawing permafrost is full of ice-forming particles that could get into the atmosphere
Ice-nucleating particles typically play a major role in cloud behavior, and the strength of that effect is still being studied.
First 100 Days: Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before
The entire administration is mobilizing to take on the challenge from every angle in a strategic, integrated way.