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Alton C. Byers
The Conversation· 10 hours agoAlton C. Byers is a mountain geographer, conservationist, and mountaineer specializing in applied research, high altitude ecosystems, glacier hazards,...
This rising star of children’s books has created a stellar new fantasy
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoAs a child, Abi Elphinstone suffered from dyslexia. At school, she says, she was dismissed as...
'Rivers in the sky' have drenched California, yet even more extreme rains are possible
Los Angeles Times· 6 days ago“Our findings show that atmospheric river activity exceeds what has occurred since instrumental...
Gen Z, millennials are still big fans of books – even if they don’t call themselves ‘readers’
MinnPost· 16 hours agoAccording to a recent survey we conducted, there’s also a small gap between reading activity and...
How the Greek home of the Olympics is keeping the flame alive for visitors
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNowhere does organised chaos quite as splendidly as Greece. And as with other facets of life in the...
Letters: The Scottish people have been badly let down by their inept, dysfunctional leaders
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSIR – The past two days in Scotland have been a pathetic farce (report, April 26), reflecting the...
On This Day, April 25: Baltimore protests Freddie Gray's death
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 days agoOn April 25, 2015, protests -- some violent -- broke out in Baltimore following the death of Freddie...
NASA wants to create a time zone on the moon. Here’s what that means for Jewish space travelers
The Forward· 12 hours agoThe last of these is the reason I’m writing this now: NASA has decided that the moon needs its own...
Toxic gas adds to a long history of pollution in southwest Memphis
Staten Island Advance· 15 hours agoFor many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on...
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith hires dean for its college of arts and sciences | Arkansas...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 22 hours agoToni Alexander, a professor and chairperson in the Department of History and Anthropology at...