Environment Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/environment/ The best minds on the most important topics. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:50:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Environment Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/environment/ 32 32 For Better Soil, Get Better Data https://issues.org/better-soil-data-zhong-mitchell/ https://issues.org/better-soil-data-zhong-mitchell/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46458 If you were buying a house, would you expect the value of the property to be based on its current condition, or its condition 50 years ago? When it comes to farmland… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/better-soil-data-zhong-mitchell/feed/ 0 When That Chickadee Is No Longer “A Machine With Feathers” https://issues.org/animal-minds-keim/ https://issues.org/animal-minds-keim/#respond Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45583 New research on animal intelligence is leading to a clash of worldviews that has implications for policy.

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]]> https://issues.org/animal-minds-keim/feed/ 0 Our Bases Are Precarious! https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/ https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44606 Sea level rise has become a standard indicator of how humans are transforming the planet. But our ideas about sea level, why we measure it, and how it varies have changed radically over the centuries.

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]]> https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/feed/ 0 When Oil and Gas Companies Go to School https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/ https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43615 Funding for university research programs by the oil and gas (O&G) industry is increasingly controversial in the United States. A 2023 Guardian article, for instance, described student “unease” upon learning that an… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/feed/ 0 Transforming How the Environmental Protection Agency Does Science https://issues.org/epa-science-yosie/ https://issues.org/epa-science-yosie/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43590 For the past half century, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has applied a common regulatory framework to the implementation of public health and environmental statutes that primarily involves focusing on discrete… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/epa-science-yosie/feed/ 0 How the Octopus Got to the Senate https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/ https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:23:03 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43640 Octopuses are famously smart: they can recognize individual humans, solve problems, and even keep gardens. They are also a popular food for humans: around 350,000 tons of octopus are caught worldwide each… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/feed/ 0 Ten Years Into the Gulf Research Program https://issues.org/gulf-research-program-augustine/ https://issues.org/gulf-research-program-augustine/#respond Wed, 08 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41965 On April 20, 2010, an explosion ripped through the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and triggered the worst oil spill to occur in US waters and… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/gulf-research-program-augustine/feed/ 0 The Roots That Ward Off Disaster https://issues.org/gulf-mexico-disaster-emergency-management-montano/ https://issues.org/gulf-mexico-disaster-emergency-management-montano/#respond Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41967 Every summer I take my undergraduate emergency management students to Louisiana to learn about disasters in the Gulf. One of our most valuable experiences is volunteering with local organizations that are replanting… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/gulf-mexico-disaster-emergency-management-montano/feed/ 0 Building Community in the Bayou  https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/ https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:46:59 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41557 At the age of 19, Monique Verdin picked up a camera and began documenting the lives of her relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that she would spend the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/feed/ 0 In the Heart of the Yakni Chitto https://issues.org/monique-verdin-art-yakni-chitto/ https://issues.org/monique-verdin-art-yakni-chitto/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:57:10 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41389 Monique Verdin began documenting the lives of her relatives in the Mississippi delta in 1998, when she was 19. That year, her grandmother Armantine Marie Billiot Verdin and other Houma elders traveled… Read More

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