The Week in Climate Change News

The Week in Climate Change News

A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Fossil fuel transition back in draft pact for UN Summit of the Future after outcry. The new text of a UN pact for the high-level event brings back...
Featured Connection: Environmental Justice

Featured Connection: Environmental Justice

The Politics of Place Communities populated primarily by ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged people have long been burdened with a disproportionate number of environmental hazards such as garbage dumps, toxic waste facilitates, scrap yards, factories, and...
Featured Connection: Oceanography

Featured Connection: Oceanography

Studying Our Greatest Resource Because the ocean covers over 70 percent of the planet and contains 99 percent of the living space on Earth, its composition (e.g., its physical, chemical, and biological makeup) has a significant impact on all life. This is true whether...
The Week in Climate Change News

The Week in Climate Change News

A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Extreme heat increasingly disrupting child health, UNICEF warns. “Extreme heat is increasing, disrupting children’s health, wellbeing and daily...
Featured Connection: Ocean Literacy

Featured Connection: Ocean Literacy

The Greatest Threat to the Ocean is Ignorance Ocean literacy is defined as an understanding of the ocean’s influence on you and your influence on the ocean. The idea of creating a more “ocean-literate” society is, in many ways, the central theme that runs throughout...