Heat mapping finds that Milwaukee experiences hotter summer nights in densely developed urban areas
It may be the dead of winter, but a recent mapping campaign found heavily developed urban areas of Milwaukee stayed about 10-degrees warmer at night than other parts of the city during hot summer days. Last summer, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources...
Milwaukee’s lead pipe replacement rate would take six decades without Federal funds to accelerate program
Beginning in 2017, the city of Milwaukee started the tall task of replacing its 73,000 lead water service lines. Six years later, there is around 67,000 of the water lines still in use in the state’s largest city. Federal funding could help ramp up the removal...
Immigration Enforcement: Migrant deaths in Mexico puts spotlight on how U.S. policy has shifted south
By Raquel Aldana, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law, University of California, Davis The fire-related deaths of at least 39 migrants in a detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S. border with Mexico, will likely be...
How a company like Fox can claim to be a news organization to publish lies with impunity
By John C. Watson, Associate Professor of Journalism, American University Headlines in early March 2023 implied Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch had made a damning confession. He had affirmed that some of his most important journalists were reporting that the 2020...
Ukrainian forces consider how to “de-occupy” Crimea as Russia prepares for a likely spring offensive
By Christopher Morris, Teaching Fellow, School of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation, University of Portsmouth To paraphrase the words of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, everything began with Crimea, and everything will end there as well. When Russia...
A National Divorce: States are already withdrawing from a United America
By Michael J. Lee, Professor of Communication, College of Charleston Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. She has...
A swollen prison population: How America can recover from its addiction to mass incarceration
By Jeffrey Bellin, Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995, but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost...
Cognitive Decline: Scientists have known for years that diets high in fat and sugar can impair the brain
By Sara N. Burke, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Cognitive Aging, University of Florida Scientists have known for years that unhealthy diets, particularly those that are high in fat and sugar, may cause detrimental changes to the brain and lead to cognitive...
Developing countries can reduce hunger and slow climate change by using solar-powered refrigerators
By Abay Yimere, Postdoctoral Scholar in International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or allowed to spoil, it makes economies less productive and leaves people hungry....
Withering cultural capital: More than a home is lost in a community when a house is demolished
By Kevin D. Murphy, Andrew W Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University In 2013 alone, more than 500 houses were demolished in Nashville, Tennessee, a sharp increase from previous years. And hundreds of additional...
Study of wildfire survivors finds climate change trauma has real impacts on cognition ability
By Jyoti Mishra, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires, can have long-term impacts on survivors’ brains and cognitive functioning, especially how they...
Designed to be addictive: How social media disrupts the sleep, moods, and social activities of youth
By Linda Pagani, Professor, School of Psychoeducation and researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal; Amélie Gilker Beauchamp, Étudiante à la maîtrise en psychoéducation, Université de Montréal; Beatrice Necsa, Masters student, Psychoeducation,...
