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Environmental and Urban Economics
APRIL 2, 2022
Consider a sample of 5,000 equally talented and ambitious 18 year olds. Each has graduated from High School and each is considering applying to the University of California. X2 = percentage of Asians who apply to the University of California given random assignment to the control group. Permit me to focus on one example.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 14, 2024
Every five years or so, Congress reauthorizes a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar law that has a major impact not only on farmers and ranchers—who make up less than 2 percent of the US population—but also on the environment, public health, and the economy.
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Washington Nature
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Second-growth forests are structurally simple containing similar trees of similar ages, and vastly outnumber old-growth forest stands at Ellsworth. On the contrary, old-growth forests are structurally more complex, and serve as better habitat for threatened species (such as the Marbled murrelet). Tomas Corsini Sr. Watch the Video.
Cleannovate
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Is a PhD useful outside the walls of a university? PhD holders are not only expected to research on new ways of solving problems but also teach students in university. But what options do they have when universities seem to be downsizing instead of employing? If not, how can we prove it wrong? But is it really true?
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Recent stories in the New York Times ’ groundwater investigation series have highlighted growing concern for the global loss of groundwater, which has finally begun to raise awareness of the need for critical changes in how we are using our groundwater. Historically in California, unlimited groundwater pumping has been the norm.
Frontiers
JULY 20, 2022
These lava caves and geothermal vents are similar to what may have once existed on Mars and the bacterial communities that co-exist there provide clues about how life can exist in extreme environments. Thick microbial mats hang under a rock ledge in steam vents that run along the Eastern Rift Zone on Hawai?i Image Credit: R. noa, in the US.
Washington Nature
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
by Grace Lee Kang, Freelance Writer “I’ve always been interested in forest management—how can we use science to understand what’s going on physiologically with trees and help them do better when the climate is wreaking havoc on them?”. Indra Boving takes a tree core sample at Ellsworth Creek Preserve. Credit: Michael Case/TNC.
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