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A Life of Science:
The Human Story of Transformation
in Coastal Bangladesh
by Saleh Ahmed

August 22, 2018

A Life of Science, Currents, To Know a Place

A Series by New Scientists Most people in Bangladesh have experiences with natural hazards. I am not an exception. Since childhood, ... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Extreme Gardening in the Rocky Mountains
by Lorah Patterson

May 17, 2018

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists IIt was early morning and the clouds hung low in the Colorado valley. “Get on your feet! Ba doo da doo b... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Identity and Environmental
Politics in Rainfed India
by Carly Nichols

December 19, 2017

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists As a researcher visiting India to study agriculture and food security, I never thought I’d find myself r... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Harvesting Sunlight
by Liliana Ruiz Diaz

October 29, 2017

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists The phone alarm startles me awake at 6:30. Heavy curtains prevent the dawn light from passing through th... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Travel Bug
by Genevieve Comeau

September 5, 2017

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists 1947. Entebbe, Uganda. Wind-tossed branches throw light across a monkey lying on the floor of a metal c... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Lessons from Retreating Glaciers
by Luke Parsons

May 28, 2017

A Life of Science, Currents, To Know a Place

A Series by New Scientists The melting snow under my boot collapses and my stomach tightens as I catch my weight with my ice axe. Foc... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Pushing Ants Off the Mountaintop
by Garrison Loope

March 28, 2017

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists On a beautiful spring day I find myself yet again balanced on a rickety stepladder on the side of a dirt r... Read More...

A Life of Science: On the Trail
of the Tuscarora Migration Project
by Edward Schuyler Chew

March 5, 2017

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists Winds and rain whipped across the rugged ridgetop of Pennsylvania’s Tuscarora Mountains as we scrambled ov... Read More...

A Life of Science: Rivers of Caution
by Arica Crootof

February 12, 2017

A Life of Science, Currents

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What Hydropower in the Himalayas Tells Us About Energy and Justice As I lift a steaming cup of chai to my lips, I pause and inhale, t... Read More...

A Life of Science: Hydropolitics
in the Sierra Madre Oriental
by Noah Silber-Coats

September 25, 2016

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists The van slows to a halt under a grove of alders, nose to nose with a pickup truck filled with men in weste... Read More...

A Life of Science: Embracing Water
by Gloria Jimenez

August 21, 2016

A Life of Science, Currents

A Series by New Scientists The Carson Scholars program at the University of Arizona is dedicated to training the next generation of environme... Read More...