By Vance Nygard, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences The first major hurricane to make landfall on the United States mainland since 2005, Hurricane Harvey was a disaster: killing more than 80, displacing millions and causing billions of dollars in property damage. Such fast, severe environmental alterations also…
Doctoral candidate Andrea Kealoha. By Vance Nygard, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences Designing and conducting experiments, interpreting data, and integrating criticisms (i.e. the scientific method), while certainly challenging, is not the culmination of scientific truth per se. If new scientific developments are going to have tangible effects on society, then…
An autumn wildfire blazes in the Appalachian Mountains. (Shutterstock) By Andrew Vernon, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences Fire was frequent in the past, and an important shaper of vegetation in the Appalachian forest – along with the rest of North America. These weren’t the catastrophic forest fires we see…
