About 20 million college students in the US trip to high school every day on the acquainted yellow bus. The overwhelming majority of the nation’s roughly 490,000 college buses —…
For many years, Europe has poured thousands and thousands of tons of its trash into incinerators annually, usually beneath the green-sounding label “waste to vitality.” Now, considerations about incineration’s outsized…
Virtually 20 years after the adoption of hydraulic fracturing started to supercharge U.S. manufacturing of oil and gasoline, there’s rising proof of a correlation between the business’s actions and an…
The monsoon season in Bangladesh usually runs from Could to September, with rainfall peaking in July and sputtering out in early October. This 12 months, nonetheless, there was extra rain…
Throughout Bolivia, even in protected areas acknowledged by the United Nations for his or her range of wildlife, greater than 1,000 artisanal mining operations are razing bushes, diverting waterways, and…
Nalleli Cobo was 9 years outdated when her nostril began bleeding, on and off all through the day, and infrequently into her pillow at evening. Then got here the complications…
What occurs to the surroundings when a big, industrialized nation is consumed by warfare? Ukraine is discovering out. Whereas concern about human lives stays paramount, Russia’s warfare on that nation’s…
Harris County, Texas is the hub of America’s fossil gasoline and petrochemical industries. A whole lot of refineries and chemical vegetation cluster within the county, which incorporates Houston, and they’re…
When marine biologist Richard Thompson and his college students analyzed samples of seaside sand over 20 years in the past, they had been stunned to search out numerous small multicolored…
Karen Gdula lives in the home she grew up in, a modest residence on a reasonably road in rural western Pennsylvania. Ivy Lane, in her view, is someplace particular. “There’s…
