Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Andrea Elyse Messer, Penn State
Seeing how a new crop or missing animal affects the food web of the Ancestral Puebloan southwestern United States could shed light on the future of our food.
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- Written by: Steve Schwarze, The University of Montana; et al.
If citizens have heard anything about the upheaval in the U.S. coal industry, it is probably the insistence that President Obama and the EPA have waged a “war on coal.”
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- Written by: Nick Osbaldiston, James Cook University
When we think of coasts, we are likely to think about the great sandy beaches that have been the destination for many day trips and long weekends.
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- Written by: Mari Jensen, University of Arizona
Warming in the 21st century has reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet—about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, a new study warns.
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- Written by: Andrew Borrell, The University of Queensland
While increases in population and wealth will lift global demand for food by up to 70% by 2050, agriculture is already feeling the effects of climate change.
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- Written by: Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW; Andrew King, University of Melbourne, and Matthew Hale, UNSW
The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks.
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- Written by: Greg Borzo, University of Chicago
The increase in large-scale tornado outbreaks in the US doesn’t appear to be clearly linked to climate change, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Todd Bates, Rutgers University
What, quantitatively, is the social cost of carbon dioxide—the economic damage caused by a 1-ton increase in emissions or the benefits of a 1-ton decrease?
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- Written by: Robert Mitchum, University of Chicago
Technological advances wouldn’t protect US agriculture from a drought on the scale of the legendary Dust Bowl crisis of the 1930s, research shows.
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- Written by: Beverly James, University of Florida
Global climate change has already impacted every aspect of life on Earth, from genes to entire ecosystems, according to a new study in Science.
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- Written by: Gillian Kiley, Brown University
Climate-related catastrophes are expensive, whether they come on suddenly, like the thousand-year flood in Louisiana in August 2016, or move slowly and inexorably, like desertification in Turkey.
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- Written by: Keith Randall, Texas A&M University
Hurricane and tropical storm development from three million years ago might give today’s forecasters a good blueprint for 21st-century storms.
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- Written by: Sean Barton, University of Sheffield
Scientists now agree: warmer weather in the Arctic and a wavy jet stream are influencing winter weather in the UK and US.
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- Written by: La Monica Everett-Haynes, University of Arizona
The destructive nature of Hurricane Matthew—which resulted in hundreds of deaths in Haiti, dozens more in the US, and extensive damage still being assessed—was a test of strength in communications systems, infrastructure, and ultimately the resilience of communities.
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- Written by: Ken Branson, Rutgers University
New York City can expect nine-foot floods, as intense as the one produced by 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, at least three times more frequently over the next century—and possibly as much as 17 times more frequently, say researchers.
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- Written by: David Titley, Pennsylvania State University
In this presidential election year we have heard much about some issues, such as immigration and trade, and less about others.
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- Written by: Hannah Hickey, University of Washington
The unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 appears to be linked to the unusually warm ocean conditions—nicknamed “the blob”—in the winter and spring of that year.
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- Written by: Carolin Schellhorn, St. Joseph's University
Hurricane Matthew has slammed into the Florida coast after hammering Haiti. Close to 2 million people were asked to evacuate to escape its winds and rain.
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- Written by: Rebecca Darbyshire and Snow Barlow, University of Melbourne
Spring arrives and the warming weather encourages the plants in our gardens and parks to burst into life, commencing their annual reproductive cycle.
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- Written by: Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams
The planet could pass the critical 1.5°C global temperature threshold in a decade—and is already two-thirds of the way to hit that warming limit, climate scientists warned on Thursday.
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- Written by: Patrick Gonzalez, National Park Service
Trees are dying across Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks. Glaciers are melting in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Corals are bleaching in Virgin Islands National Park.
