Question Your World: Will Climate Change Be a Part of Future Elections?
Elections are opportunities we citizens have to voice our opinion on topics. Our changing climate has impacts on agriculture, real estate, city planning, human health, and beyond.
Retirement Reflections: Top 5 Most Interesting Kepler Finds
On Tuesday, October 30, NASA announced that the Kepler space telescope had run out of fuel and would be retired. The mission’s story dates back 35 years, even before we knew for sure that planets existed around other stars (now called exoplanets).
Question Your World: What’s Going On with the Largest Living Organism?
We often talk about plants and trees because they are simply that important! They all matter, the small ones to the big ones. Right now scientists are looking at the biggest one.
Question Your World: How Do Cities Handle Heat?
As our population grows, we will need more and more places for us humans to do our human things. This means, as we grow, we tend to convert natural spaces into developed areas. An urban environment is quite different from a natural landscape and thus has its own variables and concerns.
Question Your World: Why Are Virginia Scientists Planting African Crops?
Humans have transplanted crops all over the globe and have ushered in the era of modern agriculture, but what happens when the environment for specific crops changes?
