Could the first images from the Vera Rubin telescope change how we view space for good?

The new observatory can take very high resolution images of distant objects in space.

Dr Phil Wiseman, Research Fellow, Astronomy, University of Southampton • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~7 min

What Danish climate migration drama, Families Like Ours, gets wrong about rising sea levels

International migration from climate change is the exception, not the norm.

Florian Steig, DPhil Student, Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~6 min

Cyberattacks shake voters’ trust in elections, regardless of party

A study found that viewing news of a cyberattack lowered voter trust in election integrity – even when the voter’s candidate won and even if the attack wasn’t on voting systems.

Bruce Schneier, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~9 min

Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis

Fears about supply, demand, profits and supply chains all combine into a volatile mix that delivers prices that are often higher in a crisis, but also change more rapidly and by larger amounts.

Skip York, Nonresident Fellow in Energy and Global Oil, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~8 min

What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values

The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in federal laws over the past 55 years.

Janet McCabe, Visiting Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Law, Visiting Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~12 min

Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider

The ruling limits the rights of Medicaid patients to choose their own health care provider. It could have consequences far beyond South Carolina.

Sonia Suter, Professor of Law, George Washington University • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~10 min

Hurricane Helene set up future disasters, from landslides to flooding – cascading hazards like these are now upending risk models

Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggests new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Brian J. Yanites, Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science. Professor of Surficial and Sedimentary Geology, Indiana University • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~7 min

Natural disasters don’t disappear when the storm ends or the earthquake stops – they evolve

Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggest new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Brian J. Yanites, Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science. Professor of Surficial and Sedimentary Geology, Indiana University • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~7 min

Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that’s a worry for people and pets

The blooms have become an annual problem in the Great Lakes. DNA studies show what’s growing there and why it’s dangerous.

Gregory J. Dick, Professor of Biology, University of Michigan • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~10 min

Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer than before in Lake Erie − why that’s a worry for people and pets

The risk of harmful algal blooms can be reduced. The biggest drivers of the increase are farm fertilizer and climate change.

Gregory J. Dick, Professor of Biology, University of Michigan • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~10 min

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