Sixty degrees in early March may sound like good news if it’s typical to wear parkas right now where you live. Indeed, as University of Arizona plant ecologist Theresa Crimmins explains, spring is arriving earlier in lots of places, thanks to climate change. And that’s causing a lot of problems.
“Across the United States and worldwide, climate change is steadily disrupting the arrival and interactions of leaf buds, cherry blossoms, insects and more,” Crimmins writes. That can lead to crop failures, earlier allergy seasons and many other disconnects with serious ecological consequences.
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Yellow trout lily flowers nearly a week earlier now than in previous decades in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Theresa Crimmins, University of Arizona
Climate change has advanced the arrival of spring by as much as several weeks in some parts of the US. This can mean major crop losses and disconnects between species that need each other to thrive.
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Suresh V Kuchipudi, Pennsylvania State University
COVID-19 is not the first – nor likely the last – to emerge from the two continents.
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Minjin Kim, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Researchers have found a way to encourage cervical cancer screenings and vaccinations in Korean American women. Might their findings also work in other underrepresented populations?
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Economy + Business
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Jonathan T. Fluharty-Jaidee, West Virginia University
The Fed cut interest rates by half a percentage point in hopes of calming investors. A finance professor explains why it seems to have failed.
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Julia Brooks, New York University
Donated goods often not only fail to help those in actual need but cause congestion, tie up resources and further hurt local economies.
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Allison J. Anderson, University of Washington
Research reveals a complicated relationship between surveillance and freedom, as surveillance activities allow for greater autonomy for women hoping to work in Jordan.
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Education
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David Finkelhor, University of New Hampshire
A scholar who researches this underreported criminal behavior recommends four steps to root it out.
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Jerusha Osberg Conner, Villanova University
As a student protest continues at Syracuse University, a scholar argues that student activism is a valuable part of the college experience.
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Deni Elliott, University of South Florida
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Miami University
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Michael H. Parsons, Fordham University; Jason Munshi-South, Fordham University
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University of Washington
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