How do you keep people from being total jerks? When communities have a problem to solve — sharing limited resources (like toilet paper), or dealing with a crisis (like a government shutdown) — they fare better when more people make decisions contributing ...

Assistant Professor Anna Miller and her team at Utah State University found that between 2012 and 2019, the number of bear encounters more than doubled. But despite that, only one in four hikers carry bear spray.

Wildfire patterns in the West are changing, but according to new research, the trend in the Great Basin hasn’t necessarily been a simple increase. Exploring differences between current wildfire patterns and those from the past can help researchers pinpoi...

Chloe Seeborg was merging college programs before merging was even a thing at USU. Seeborg, who is set to graduate this spring, chose a rather unusual program of study when she launched four years ago as a Quinney Scholar at USU. She decided to blend ski...

Not everyone gets popular when it looks like society might be collapsing, but Joseph Tainter does. His phone rings, emails pour into his inbox, and people from around the world track down this Utah State University expert to ask the same question: Is this...