Earth & Sky

Selected stories from the archive

The baby universe’s first cry
A million years in five seconds

Jefferson’s dream come true
Bruce Hayden plans a national network of ecological observatories.

Stream consciousness
The Shenandoah Watershed Study monitors the health of mountain streams and the creatures that live in them.

Students get gills wet
Taking Biology 350 in the “Academical Village Tropicale”

Jonathan Finch, tornado man
Meteorologist Jonathan Finch has made a name for himself as a student and chaser of severe storms.

Predicting the weather
Climate models bode ill for native species

LeRoy researches soil to improve agriculture
Rachel LeRoy wants to do agriculture the right way.