Climate change: Plants could make floods a whole lot worse
A team of atmospheric scientists have found that plants responding to elevated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could increase regional flood risk—in some cases dramatically.
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A team of atmospheric scientists have found that plants responding to elevated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could increase regional flood risk—in some cases dramatically.
“Plants matter more than I think anyone thought they would.”
Since its discovery the Clotilda, the sunken schooner often known as the “last American slave ship,” has gained worldwide attention.
Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail takes visitors to sites around the state where people struggled for equality and social justice. Names associated with the current trail included Rosa Parks and Doctor Martin Luther King, junior. But now, supporters say a new site should be included.
"Buffalo soldier" re-enactors at the groundbreaking for the Clotilda Museum in Africantown Credit APR's Guy Busby On a February afternoon, a squad of re-enactors dressed as nineteenth century black calvarymen, known as Buffalo Soldiers, presented the colors at a ceremony to start construction of Africatown Heritage House. The museum will open this summer to tell the story of America’s last slave ship, the people it carried, and their legacy. "Because this is serious stuff to make sure that we never, ever forget the story of those people who made this place what it is. We won't forget," said...