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Featured Connection: Chemical Oceanography
Ocean Acidification and Climate Change Chemical oceanography is considered a niche area within the broader field of oceanography. Along with biological, physical, and geographical oceanography, it is one of the four main oceanographic areas. It is said that chemical...
The Path to Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 °C has Narrowed, but Clean Energy Growth is Keeping it Open
The update of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) landmark Net Zero Roadmap shows greater ambition and implementation, supported by stronger international cooperation, will be critical to reaching climate goals. According to the IEA: Driving greenhouse gas...
How Unjust Is Your Environment?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Environmental Justice Index (EJI) ranks communities across the US according to environmental health risk. EJI is the first national geospatial tool to measure the cumulative impacts of social and environmental factors,...
Featured Connection: Hydrology
Water, Water Everywhere Water is among the most important resources on our planet. Without it, life would not exist. Hydrologists study how water moves across and through Earth’s crust. They study how rain, snow, and other forms...
Is Your Drinking Water Safe?
A new study released today found that the increasing frequency of droughts, heatwaves, storms, and floods is threatening the availability of water and its quality across the world. Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands analyzed 965 cases of river...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive and quite random) list of climate change, climate policy and environmental justice stories from the past week. Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court. They accuse the countries of insufficient action over climate change and...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive and quite random) list of climate change, climate policy and environmental justice stories from the past week. New files shed light on ExxonMobil’s efforts to undermine climate science. Executives privately sought to downplay link between fossil...
EPA Watchdog Report: Refineries Can’t Police Themselves
As the Latin expression puts it, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This is a phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, which is literally translated as “Who will guard the guards themselves?” Well, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General, the...
The Father of Environmental Justice Reflects on the Movement He Started
Four decades into his activism, Dr. Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ol_Zh7Qg4A
Featured Connection: Marine Engineering
Making Ships Go Marine Engineering is a field of engineering that deals with the design, construction, operation, development, production, and maintenance of the marine equipment that forms a part of seagoing vessels, harbor installations, and docks. While naval...
American Climate Corps
President Biden announced a new initiative to train young people in high-demand skills for jobs in the clean energy economy. The American Climate Corps is designed to put a new generation of Americans to work conserving our lands and waters, bolstering community...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive and quite random) list of climate change, climate policy and environmental justice stories from the past week. Shipping giant Maersk unveils world’s first vessel using green methanol. The new container ship, ordered in 2021, has two engines: one...