Why Street Trees are so Essential for our Cities Posted in Akron, Dorwart, Top Story and Jun 12, 2018 Street trees are often taken for granted and overlooked. But in Akron, Ohio, they’re a mainstay of the urban landscape. Named a 2015 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation, Akron received the designation due
Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada http://www.sierranevada.ca.gov/our-region/tree-mortality/tree-mortality THE PROBLEM California is experiencing tree die-off at an unprecedented scale, and the Sierra Nevada Region has been hit extremely hard. 129 million trees have died across the state due to drought and bark beetles since 2010, and 85 percent of those dead trees are in the Sierra.
Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster Friday 10:00am Neil Tyson often conjectures that maybe aliens have concluded humans aren’t intelligent enough to contact. He’s probably referring to our capacity for war, but lawns may display our talent for fruitless carnage even better. Americans devote 70 hours, annually, to pushing petrol-powered spinning death blades over aggressively pointless
Sara Barbee uses the “Alert” setting on her tunable light system while teaching her Seattle-area kindergarteners. Annabel Clark / Undark Reaching behind a low bookshelf slightly taller than a typical 5-year-old—and one topped with a Seattle Seahawks gnome and stuffed kangaroo—Sara Barbee presses a button labeled “Alert.” Intense, bluish light fills her classroom, and nearly
Where work pays: How does where you live matter for your earnings? Lauren Bauer, Audrey Breitwieser, Ryan Nunn, and Jay ShambaughTuesday, July 10, 2018 Facebook Click to share on Facebook Twitter Click to share on Twitter LinkedIn Click to share on LinkedIn Print Click to print More DOWNLOAD Full paper Technical appendix Editor’s Note: An
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/11/climate/summer-nights-warming-faster-than-days-dangerous.html Nights Are Warming Faster Than Days. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous. By KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS and NADJA POPOVICH JULY 11, 2018 July kicked off with searingly hot temperatures for most Americans this year. New daily, monthly and all-time record highs were set across the country last week, with more than 100 million people sweating it out