What do the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020—and 2,500 years of forest history—tell us about the future of wildfires in the West? Read from ֱ expert on The Conversation.
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Just half of survey respondents wanted to continue fighting to regain all Ukrainian territory including Crimea. Read from ֱ geography expert John O’Loughlin and colleagues on The Conversation. Read more
Plants don’t just grow straight up—they can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. Physicists were able to model a sunflower to predict how they grow. Read from ֱ expert Chantal Nguyen on The Conversation. Read more
ֱ expert Julian Resasco visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers—here's what he learned. Read on The Conversation. Read more