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Archive: Science Update: Food Agriculture – The Plant Scientist’s Toolbox, March 9, 2023

Humans have used a variety of ways to modify food crops to suit our needs and tastes for more than 10,000 years. Over this time, the plant scientists’ toolbox has grown: first with “traditional” tools (like cross-breeding, selective breeding, a...

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Exploring Natural Disasters through Primary Sources

By Cheryl Lederle and Stacie Moats

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Wildfire!

By Michael Giamellaro, Elinor Wilson, and Heidi Dixon

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Essential Ingredients for a Scientific Consensus: Climate Change Edition

By Ann Reid, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education

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Archive: Science Update: State of the Climate 2022, January 19, 2023

The past several years have seen too many weather and climate extremes to count, from record-obliterating heat waves to tremendous rainfall events to terrifyingly strong tropical cyclones. What can scientists say about how weather and climate extreme...

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Learning About Coastal Zone Plants—Integrating Formal and Informal Teaching and Learning Practices

By M. Alexandra Abreu Lima and Lia Vasconcelos

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Getting a Sense of Local Air Quality

By Jill Nugent

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The Human Side of Our Dynamic Earth

By Patty McGinnis

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CCE For Me: Students Demand High-Quality Climate Change Course Offerings

By Timothy E. Muhich and Richard B. Rood

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What If?

By Alicia Boisvert

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Teaching and Learning About Global Climate Change Online

Sessions of our laboratory-based physics course have been “meeting” synchronously online instead of on campus due to the pandemic. Shifting to remote instruction prompted us to create online versions of the course....

By Emily van Zee, Elizabeth Gire, Kelby T. Hahn, and Mackenzie Belden

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