Climate change has played a small but important role in fueling civil wars and other armed conflicts in recent decades and will play an exponentially greater role in the future, according to a new study.
Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are exploring human settlement and urbanization patterns in the United States between 1810 and 2015 using a groundbreaking new dataset from Zillow.
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Recent advances in veterinary research have suggested that if your dog has cancer, it鈥檚 possible you might, too, thanks to toxins in your shared environment. But that research might not tell the whole story, according to new findings.
鈥淭he Weight of Water鈥 follows the blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer as he kayaks the Grand Canyon. And, for Michael Brown, the sound is a vital element of that experience.