In yet another year defined by record breaking weather events, attribution science can play an important role in articulating how climate change is both contributing to and worsening extremes. In broad strokes, attribution science identifies and quantifies human contributions to climate change and its related impacts. Attribution research has provided foundational understanding about climate change
In 2023, the United State Supreme Court ruled on the Sackett decision, which drastically narrowed the scope of the federal Clean Water Act and left many waters that were previously covered by the...
Hiking through mud, thick and slippery, puts a damper on anyone’s enthusiasm. Such was the case for my intern and me on a humid summer morning, making our way to our first Western...
This piece was co-authored with Joana Setzer, Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and co-published on July 6, 2026. In May 2026, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands heard arguments in the landmark climate case of Milieudefensie v. Shell on whether Shell has a civil law obligation to reduce its greenhouse gas
Running climate model simulations with—and without—observed human influences can quantify how emissions changed the probability or intensity of a weather event.
Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.
A look at cats’ diets as reported by researchers over many years shows they eat a lot more than people might think.
Data center proposals are often local controversies with significant underlying principles at stake.
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the temperature high, the risk rises even more.
We look out over the land and describe it as “prairie.” And that’s enough for a lot of people who enjoy Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center. The prairie is a mass of green in the spring and...
After a very dry winter and early spring, the rains have returned and they have coaxed a great variety of wildflowers out of the prairie earth. Over the past weeks we have seen many species, here are...
How can we preserve scientific integrity policies in the next administration when they've proven to be subject to political whims?