I stood in front of the Career Services building near the conclusion of my senior year at Dartmouth, watching my classmates line up. Everyone seemed to be dressed the same as they waited for their corporate job interviews, the men in navy jackets and the women in dark skirts. I remembered my first day on…
The rapid evolution of Hurricane Ida from category 1 status in the Gulf of Mexico to category 4 classification at landfall was a frightening element of the storm, which devastated Louisiana on Sunday. The storm’s sustained winds accelerated from 85 miles per hour on Saturday to 150 miles per hour the next day as it…
The Shasta Valley, nestled between two mountain ranges in Northern California’s Siskiyou County, is as intricate as it is beautiful. Nearly four years after initially visiting the area, hydrogeologist Brad Gooch is still awestruck by the scenery. It’s not because of Mount Shasta, a 14,000-foot volcano that towers over forest and farming. Gooch, on the…
Tropical Storm Warning Henri made landfall in Rhode Island yesterday afternoon with 60 mph winds, marking it the state’s first named storm in 30 years. In the Northeast, where most hurricane-force storms fade over cooler waters or are pushed into the Atlantic by easterly winds, this was an uncommon occurrence. By the time they approach…
Installed in people’s living rooms, gardens, and businesses across Haiti, a network of low-cost seismometers is assisting scientists in deciphering the inner workings of the magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck the country’s southern region earlier this month. After the country’s most recent significant earthquake, a magnitude-7 tremor that killed more than 100,000 people in 2010, the…
According to US climate envoy John Kerry, we’ll need “technology we don’t now have” to achieve net zero emission objectives by 2045. He’s half-right, to be sure. Fighting climate change does necessitate inventive, technologically driven concepts that can be tested, copied, and scaled at breakneck speed. But creating entirely new technology isn’t always the answer,…
There are roughly 1,500 potentially active volcanoes around the world, many of which are in the Pacific “ring of fire,” a band of active volcanoes and earthquakes that runs along the Pacific Ocean. Legends and origin stories have sprung up as a result of their presence, such as the genuine account of Nabukelevu’s volcanic explosion.…
The argument over the ethics of the famous material’s iconic material is one of the only things that seem to be more ageless than a leather jacket. Leather, like actual animal fur and feathers, is hotly disputed in the fashion business. It is primarily manufactured from the skins of bulls and calves. Veganism and the…
It has a plastic appearance, a plastic feel, and a plastic capacity to hold your favorite beverage. However, there is a label on the cup you were given that says “100% biodegradable.” Is that even possible? Simply defined, this plastic-like substance is polylactic acid (PLA), a polymer made up of many small lactic acid molecules…
With fewer than 90 days until COP26, the annual United Governments climate change meeting in Glasgow, Scotland this November, nations are under increasing pressure to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The 2015 Paris Agreement called for pledges to keep global warming “well below” 2 degrees Celsius and to pursue efforts to keep…