Making Headlines

New York Daily News, August 13, 2020

It might be all over for the Greenland ice sheet. A new study has found that even if global warming were to stop tomorrow, its glaciers will keep shrinking. ...

The Conversation, August 11, 2020

While the coronavirus hammers Mexico, some Indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are finding creative ways to cope. Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s poorest and most ethnically diverse states, is home to numerous Indigenous communities, including the Zapotec people. I have spent many years in the central valleys of Oaxaca conducting anthropological research in rural Zapotec villages, documenting the people’s lives, migration patterns and food culture. ...

NPR, August 11, 2020

More than 40 years ago, in Nigeria, a young scientist named Rattan Lal encountered an idea that changed his life - and led, eventually, to global recognition and a worldwide movement to protect the planet's soil. Lal was fresh out of graduate school, recruited to join the newly established International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, and given an assignment that, in hindsight, seems ridiculous in its ambition. ...

The Lantern, August 5, 2020

Several members of the Ohio State community testified at a virtual public hearing Tuesday night to discuss the university’s proposed $278 million plan to construct a combined heat and power plant on campus, made possible by the university’s partnership with energy companies. ...

The Columbus Dispatch, August 2, 2020

Health and science experts have begun to test raw sewage in hopes of predicting where future COVID-19 hotspots are likely to erupt. Testing will help determine where coronavirus is about to break out in Ohio, and almost everyone who uses a bathroom will be a “participant.” ...

The Daily Standard, July 29, 2020

A group of scientists has begun testing another technique to clean up the water in the experimental Grand Lake St. Marys State Park West Beach area. ...

Medium, July 28, 2020

Our world is rapidly transforming. Sea levels are rising, the Earth is getting warmer, and the effects of climate change are slowly taking a toll on our way of life. 2.4 billion people, almost half the world’s population, live within 60 miles of oceans. Our lives, economy, culture, and way of living will change, so scientists are rushing to make sense of how high and how quickly sea levels will rise. But one question remains: how will they do this? At McMurdo Station, scientists explain how the Thwaites glacier, a chunk of ice in Western Antarctica roughly the size of Florida, could become the epicenter of major cataclysm. ...

Capital Press, July 27, 2020

A string of cars waited outside the Creswell Food Pantry, nestled in a residential neighborhood surrounded by farmland — cattle, hazelnut trees, wheat fields. It is hunger in a land of abundance. ...

Akron Beacon Journal, July 27, 2020

It looked like a bright spot in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic: With the roads practically empty as people sheltered in place and worked from home, there were fewer car crashes. But the good news stops there. ...

E&E News, July 24, 2020

Charles Jones had already established himself as one of the most visible utility executives of the Trump era by the time he took the stage at the Edison Electric Institute's annual conference in San Francisco in late 2018. ...