Science

Reporting on the environment, conservation, health care and technology. See more reporting on Alabama environmental issues at southern-science.com.

Not-so-sunny prospects: Alabama has solar power potential, but lags in adoption (Feb. 25, 2022)

Incapacitated: Federal court case to determine whether Alabama Power capacity fees hamstring solar customers (Feb. 25, 2022)

The Legacy of Race: ZIP code, race predict lifelong health inequities (July 12, 2020)

The Legacy of Race: Access to insurance, treatment isn’t colorblind (July 13, 2020)

For sea turtles, a new opportunity out of Deepwater Horizon tragedy (Dec. 6, 2021)

Red lines, green spaces: Historical inequities create modern ‘heat islands’ (May 19, 2021)

The invisible problem: Microplastics are clogging our rivers — and have for decades (July 16, 2021)

‘Absolutely the wrong place’: A proposed Clay quarry could cause decades of consequences for neighbors, local waterways (July 30, 2021)

Preserving Alabama’s hemlocks (April 20, 2021)

Here there be dragon(flie)s (March 21, 2021)

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Exploring in the dark

(205) Adventure (Fall 2018)

Meet the makers

Exodus (Spring 2015)