The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Up until her first year of high school, Emmie Rossi, now a senior at the University of Delaware, never considered herself a schoolwork fanatic. But that all changed when she took an earth sciences ...

Anaheim, Calif., USA: Field trips are a vital component of experiential learning in the earth science community, offering hands-on opportunities for students, professionals, and community members to ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

Look around at the Las Vegas Valley’s ever-sprawling buildings and booming resort sector, and you’ll see the end product of open-pit mines across the world. But few residents of Southern Nevada know ...

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Andrew H. Wilson Elementary fourh-graders fidget in their seats in a log cabin auditorium with floor-to-ceiling bay windows that face a stretch of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve — ...

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and life sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the ...

This study was organized around a workshop to address several tasks including: (1) examining recent earth science education programs with a research or training component, both formal and informal, in ...