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The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Alaskan rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds. As frozen ground below the surface melts, exposed minerals such as iron are...
Featured Connection: Creative Writing
The Power of Words Creative writing has been around since the time we could first put a chisel to a stone tablet and carve out glyphs, wedges, and runes and people have been writing about the ocean for probably just as long. And why not? The ocean makes for both a...
Your Roadmap to Success
Most of us don’t know what we want to study in college or do when we get out of school or even what our options might be. So to give you a better idea of what’s out there, we created profiles for dozens of ocean-related jobs and professions. Each profile is a roadmap...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws. State, which just had its hottest year since 1895, will ban offshore...
Featured Connection: Microbiology
Life at the Microscopic Level Microbiology is the study of organisms that are too small to be seen with the naked eye. These microorganisms (or “microbes”) include viruses, bacteria, algae, fungi, slime molds, and protozoa. Microbes are everywhere, and we mean...
Toxic Communities
I highly recommend Yale Professor Dorceta Taylor's book Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility. The book analyzes the forces that constrain, compel, or encourage the movement of minorities. It examines the expulsion of...
Harnessing the Wisdom of Indigenous Communities for Marine Conservation
By engaging directly with community members and embracing indigenous knowledge in the Bocas del Toro archipelago, a NatGeo project led by a Smithsonian scientist highlights the necessity of inclusive approaches to safeguard critical marine ecosystems and culture for...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target. Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous...
Featured Connection: Naval Architecture
The Ancient Art of Shipbuilding Naval architecture has, in one form or another, existed as a profession since at least the times of the Ancient Egyptians. Back then, carving pictures of ships into rocks was the equivalent of today’s computer-aided design. And while...
Principles of Climate Justice
The Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change established the following Principles of Climate Justice: Establish a zero carbon economy and achieve this by limiting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the levels advocated by the...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Seismic shifts are underway to find finance for loss and damage. The new UN fund can channel taxes and other innovative ways of raising money to...
A New Federal Tool Could Help Cities Prepare for Scorching Summer Heat
NOAA’s National Weather Service and the CDC teamed up to create the new nationwide experimental heat forecasting system, known as HeatRisk. The interactive dashboard allows users to plug in their zip code to learn what the heat threats are for an upcoming week,...