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...
Fifth National Climate Assessment

Fifth National Climate Assessment

Biden-⁠Harris Administration Releases Fifth National Climate Assessment and Announces More Than $6 Billion to Strengthen Climate Resilience Across the Country. The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts,...
Water Insecurity

Water Insecurity

By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages. Water and climate change are inextricably linked. Climate change affects the world’s water in complex ways. From unpredictable rainfall patterns to shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels, floods,...
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...
Americans Expect Climate Change to Worsen

Americans Expect Climate Change to Worsen

According to a new national survey by the Pew Research Center, 63% of Americans say that climate change is harming people in the United States and that climate impacts will get worse over their lifetime. When it comes to the personal impact of climate change, most...
The 2023 State of the Climate Report

The 2023 State of the Climate Report

Recently published research makes dire claims about the climate, declaring that “life on planet Earth is under siege” and that “we are pushing our planetary systems into dangerous instability.” The study, titled “The 2023 State of the...