According to the recent Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report, today urban areas house about 1/2 of the human population, generate 2/3 of its economic output,
Anthony Fauci was recently interviewed by David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times. Much of the interview turned on the lessons learned about the Covid pandemic and our society’s response.
Archaeological technician wages are low and a threat to the CRM industry..
The environments that we cooperatively build and that structure our social relationships impact our lives in fundamental ways. In a remarkable new study, the broad-brush patterns between how we use
One cannot look at the news today without having to face the nature of governance. Is democracy worth the time spent negotiating and contesting rather than acting? Or, would a
As humanity copes with human-induced climate change, an important task is assessing geographic patterns of risk based on expected changes in various associated natural hazards. A recent study by ProPublica
Recent news stories have noted that population growth is turning negative in many places around the world. What happens when populations decline? This has been a large challenge in Japan
Three laws passed by the most recent US Congress–the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS Act–are creating strong demand for workers in cultural resource
Archaeological heritage management in the UK faces several threats. Some are external, but issues also arise from within the fragmented profession itself. Is crisis inevitable – and can wider lessons be learned?
The main idea for expanding the contemporary relevance of archaeology.
