Imagine yourself in this scenario: in a village, each person is given a stone to build a pathway for their community. The first stone was set by your ancestors, and their only instructions are to place the next stone, including yours, adjacent to another stone. Each stone has its own shape and size. Some are
The year is 2019 – before the pandemic, the good old times when climate change was the only existential threat we faced. A paper was published by a research group in Switzerland on the carbon mitigation potential of planting trees. The paper stated that there are enough non-forested, non-urban, and non-cropland areas on Earth to
During our weekly lab meeting, my advisor told us he was concerned that the research funds our lab was awarded by the federal government would be pulled. If our lab was defunded, we wouldn’t be able to continue our projects, and he would not be able to pay us anymore. My heart sank, I did
