Past research on the health consequences of U.S. wildfires revealed how the increasingly widespread events damage the lungs, hearts and mental health of adults and children, but mostly ignored how resulting pollution and stress affect the earliest—and most …
As a synthetic drug, fentanyl production is not limited by the need for fields, farm workers or fair weather, while its extreme potency makes it easy to smuggle in large quantities. Replacing an interdicted shipment is also cheap. This leading contributor …
Moving around campus this semester feels a bit like maneuvering through a maze, as construction fences, orange traffic barriers and detour signs can turn a trip from points A to B on campus to one that reroutes around L, F and Q. While the state's …
Compounding these stressors on apple growers, the climate is changing rapidly: Heat waves in the Pacific Northwest in recent years strained the country’s largest apple-producing areas. The South is growing hotter, and northern and eastern regions of the …
Undergraduate engineering student Jangho Yang '24 works with emerging heating and cooling technology in the lab. Photo courtesy of the A. James Clark School of Engineering. “Most people don’t really know how important cooling and heating technology is …
A winter that almost wasn’t segued into a spring short on rain (despite this weekend’s spritzing) and the first official drought to descend on the D.C. region in five years. But weather weirdness hasn’t stopped the burst of color that’s brightened the …
Millions of voting-age Americans lack a current government-issued photo ID, even as a growing number of states enact new or stricter voter ID requirements, according to an analysis released today by University of Maryland researchers and a leading voting …
A recent NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information report confirms rising costs from weather extremes in the United States: From 2016-22, 122 disasters killed at least 5,000 people and inflicted more than $1 trillion in damage. Much of that …
With support from a new five-year, $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Melissa Caras, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Maryland, will investigate this question by examining the connection between the brain’s …
Environmental science and technology Associate Professor David Tilley, left, and former student Nick Cloyd ’13, M.S. ’17, co-founders of Living Canopies. Photo courtesy of David Tilley. “Our initial vision was to get people excited about ecosystem services …
In rural Tanzania, the most extreme drought in four decades is putting communities face to face with hunger. On the lofty slopes of Nepal, rising temperatures and declining snowfall threaten devastating water shortages. And closer to home in northern …
University of Maryland instructors strike poses to embody their reactions to words they had placed around the room during an improv workshop. Left to right, Nicole Mogul, a senior lecturer in the A. James Clark School of Engineering; Mira Azarm, an …
Is AI a next-gen calculator—a handy tool to crush drudgery in our studies and research so we can concentrate on the important stuff? Will it instead tempt us to let it do all the thinking? Is it a potential agent of chaos and misinformation? Is it …
Cord-cutting bargain hunters and those who refuse to be tied to a set programming schedule may be getting the upper hand. For the first time, streaming is predicted to overtake traditional TV as the preferred form of entertainment for U.S. adults in 2023. …
The name of a new University of Maryland research center is rooted in West Africa, but its promise to offer deeper understanding of the human-nature connection will come to fruition in College Park and around the country. The Wekesa (which means “born …
While companies often raise the salaries of the most underpaid women to close the gender pay gap, a recent study by a University of Maryland business researcher and colleagues fleshed out two reasons why this doesn’t work. Margrét Bjarnadóttir, associate …
To someone just hurrying past, the thriving little oasis in the Plant Sciences Building could pass for a researcher’s greenhouse or even a meditation room. Aaliyah Flores ’19, administrative assistant for the Department of Plant Science and Landscape …
The United States spends more than $800 billion annually on Medicare health benefits for adults 65 and older, yet little is known about whether the program first established in 1966 actually helps Americans live longer lives. A new National Institutes of …
Corporate investments in climate-tech startups are a growing but overlooked aspect of energy innovation, according to a new report co-led by a University of Maryland researcher. The analysis by lead co-authors Kavita Surana, a senior fellow at the Center …
The University Park Pollinator Meadow is one stop on a growing network of rain gardens, fields, urban forests and roadside planters devised to feed and house some of Maryland’s smallest inhabitants, but which have big impact on its ecosystems and …
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