The Science of the City: Winter helps us tell native plants from invasive foes
By PAUL RUFFINS In a few months, this region will explode with solid walls of green leaves that often reach…
Science of the City: To save lives, get serious about addressing speeding
BY: PAUL RUFFINS This fourth, and last, article in our series about traffic fatalities in Prince George’s County examines why…
Chris, the underground boring machine that dug the NEBT
By Paul Ruffins Most Prince George’s County residents don’t realize that they’ve recently become the beneficiaries of a huge, five-year,…
The Science of the City: The fast and the dangerous
By Paul Ruffins This is the third article in my series examining the high rate of traffic fatalities in Prince…
The Science of the City: The county’s deadliest road
By Paul Ruffins Note: My first installment in this series on traffic safety and pedestrian injuries looked at fatality on…
The Science of the City: Pedestrian safety cause for county concern
By Paul Ruffins Columnist note: In this and my next few columns, I’ll be taking a look at Prince George’s…
Science of the City: Why tires are a pothole along the road to recycling
By Paul Ruffins In December 2022, an environmentalist discovered that nearly a thousand scrap tires had been dumped from Interstate…
The Science of the City: When it comes to cars, parts are greater than the whole
By Paul Ruffins The signs are all along the Route 1 corridor: “We pay up to $700 for unwanted cars,…
The science of the city: When it comes to cars, parts are greater than the whole
By Paul Ruffins The signs are all along the Route 1 corridor: “We pay up to $700 for unwanted cars,…
Science of the City: The afterlife of auto parts
BY PAUL RUFFINS The evolution of cars and their impact on the environment has been paradoxical. Over the past two…