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Plot comparing the efficiency with which flood risk management is carried out and the effect on addressing socio-economic inequality.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Pro-Poor Flood Risk Management Can Reduce Urban Inequality

by Jim Hall 7 December 202121 February 2023

Rich people’s aversion to flood risk results in poor people living in the most vulnerable locations poverty. Pro-poor flood risk management policies could have a significant impact on inequality.

Photograph of Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority water treatment plant in Florida.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Standards Spur Water Utilities to Improve Compliance

by Jim Hall 1 December 202116 February 2022

Although American water utility companies take time to modify procedures and technologies in response to new quality requirements, ultimately it reduces the rate at which they violate standards.

View from atop a glacier looking toward mountains on the horizon
Posted inOpinions

Chile’s Glacier Protection Law Needs Grounding in Sound Science

by A. Fernández, S. MacDonell, M. Somos-Valenzuela and Á. González-Reyes 6 July 202122 November 2021

In the works for more than a decade, proposed legislation to protect glacial and permafrost environments in Chile suffers from uncertainties and omissions that could sow conflict instead of solutions.

Dam failure in Iowa
Posted inNews

Below Aging U.S. Dams, a Potential Toxic Calamity

by J. Dinneen and A. Kennedy 11 June 20216 January 2023

Documents suggest that in more than 80 U.S. locations, the failure of an aging dam could flood a major toxic waste site.

British Columbia forestry staff on ladders picking spruce cones in a seed orchard managed by the province
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Planning and Planting Future Forests with Climate Change in Mind

by J. Besl 7 June 202128 October 2022

The climate is warming too fast for some trees to catch up. Planting seeds from warmer regions can bolster future forests, but that requires a significant shift in forestry practice.

Lake in a shape of a city in the middle of pure and fresh rain forest scenery viewed from a bird’s perspective.
Posted inNews

Chasing Carbon Unicorns

by Rishika Pardikar 5 April 20216 May 2022

According to a new report, net zero targets many governments are pursuing are distractions from the urgent need to drastically reduce carbon emissions.

A large gas well sits in Pennsylvania fields and foothills.
Posted inNews

What a New Executive Order Means for Curbing Methane Emissions

by Rishika Pardikar 29 January 202118 January 2022

Biden’s executive order calling for consideration of new methane regulations comes on the heels of a new global analysis of the fuel’s impact on climate change.

Research ecologist Steven Mirsky evaluates a cereal rye cover crop.
Posted inNews

Cover Crops, Sensors, and Food Security

by DJ McCauley 25 January 20214 November 2022

Forward-Thinking Ideas for the USDA’s Agriculture Innovation Agenda

Multiethnic group of people standing in a row and wearing masks at a polling station on Election Day
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Scientists Are Primed for Poll Positions

by K. McCarthy 19 January 202127 February 2023

Scientists and science communicators can lend their expertise to a growing shortage of poll workers in the United States.

A power planet in the U.S. Appalachian basin in August 2016
Posted inOpinions

Affordable Clean Energy Rule Threatens Progress of Clean Air Act

by S. Benish and M. Fiffer 18 November 202021 December 2022

The scientific community must act to minimize the adverse air quality and health impacts of relaxed EPA regulation.

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