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Climate change is a topic that is debated, doubted and covered by news outlets across the world. Luis Hestres, in the Department of Communication at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), is researching the evolution of climate change activism and how advocacy groups use digital platforms to mobilize.

A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula. It is intended to help coastal planners prepare for rising seas in the decades to come.

First domesticated 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, wheat and barley took vastly different routes to China, with barley switching from a winter to both a winter and summer crop during a thousand-year detour along the southern Tibetan Plateau, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

Pop the top off a can of mixed nuts and, chances are, Brazil nuts will be at the top. This phenomenon, of large particles tending to rise to the top of mixtures while small particles tend to sink down, is popularly known as the “Brazil nut effect” and more technically as granular segregation.

Una nueva herramienta de la NASA vincula los cambios en el nivel del mar en 293 ciudades portuarias a regiones específicas del hielo terrestre fundido, tales como el sur de Groenlandia y la Península Antártica. Su objetivo es ayudar a los planificadores costeros a prepararse para la subida del nivel de los mares en las próximas décadas.Una nueva herramienta de la NASA vincula los cambios en el nivel del mar en 293 ciudades portuarias a regiones específicas del hielo terrestre fundido, tales como el sur de Groenlandia y la Península Antártica. Su objetivo es ayudar a los planificadores costeros a prepararse para la subida del nivel de los mares en las próximas décadas.