Higher Ground: Community Science Unifies Us Around Climate Change
by WNYC
WNYC— Climate change can feel apocalyptic and unsolvable. Yet, communities across our region are finding ways to adapt and build resilience to its impacts. Higher Ground tells the stories of people engaging in community science to take control and find understanding in changes to their environment. Empowered with information, these communities are able to keep cool heads in the face of global warming. Find more Higher Ground stories from our colleagues at WSHU public radio in Fairfield, CT.
WLNS—‘MI Healthy Climate Corps’ helping community with combating climate change. The ‘MI Healthy Climate Corps’ started in March and members of a new state program are focused on helping communities with initiatives to help tackle climate change.
Rappler—Deaf community builds sign language corpus for climate change vocabulary. Project SIGND aims to collect signs for climate change terms to make the issue understandable for the Filipino deaf community.
Shafaqna English—Science Daily: $38 trillion in damages each year due to climate change. Shafaqna Science- Even if CO2 emissions were drastically cut today, the global economy is already facing a 19% loss in income by 2050 due to climate change, according to a new study. These damages are six times greater than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees,