This disclosure stems from an investigation led by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Senate Budget Committee.
Climate scientists would be less likely to issue dire warnings of planetary doom if only they gave more credence to the geological history of the past several million years.
Marinel Ubaldo freezes when she hears heavy rain or intense wind. “My brain just cannot function,” says Ubaldo, a climate activist who is studying for her master’s degree in environmental management at Duke University in North Carolina. “It triggers my trauma, and all the memories from the past just come
Technology, science, education and social responsibility unite in the project of the renovated ‘Galaxie’ sailboat. On the morning of Saturday 27 April, the Palma International Boat Show hosted the presentation of the ‘Loving the Mediterranean’ initiative aboard the Galaxie, the first 100 per cent electric training boat that can be visited during the Palma Boat […]
(The Center Square) – Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, every public high school shall require a unit of instruction addressing climate change in either a required science class or a required social studies class. House Bill 4895 gives the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) the directive to create professional development resources for educators to best teach climate change coursework. State Rep. Janet Yang Rohr, D-Naperville, said she is working to...
The plan includes 10 recommended changes or tactics communities can use to become more environmentally friendly.
In the ongoing quest to track the progression of climate change, scientists frequently examine the state of our planet's vegetation—forests, grasslands, agricultural lands, and beyond.
Scotland’s governing coalition has fallen apart — and a stalled drive to cut carbon emissions played a major role.
The Tesla Supercharging station — one of two in Manteca — near Bass Pro Shops at Orchard Valley is high profile.
Marquetta Goodwine is used to educating others about her people, the Gullah Geechee, and their traditions, art and history. The Gullah Geechee are descendants of enslaved people who live in coastal U.S. communities along the Southeast. Isolation has allowed them to maintain their distinct way of life, including their language, cuisine, spiritual practices and craft traditions like basket weaving. “That allowed our Africanisms, as others call it, to continue to evolve here in this land but to...
The following year they sent a bumper delegation to COP27 in Sharm El Sheik at a cost of £150,000. Neither the then First Minister nor her ministers had any kind of formal role at the conference, but they got some sun soaked selfies with big hitters on the international stage so perhaps they saw that as justification of a sort. How shallow that all feels now. Last week the SNP/Green administration announced that it was ditching our national commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 75 per cent by...
When I last wrote, the Institute had just announced MIT’s Climate Project. Now that it’s underway, I’d like to tell you a bit more about how we came to launch this ambitious new enterprise. In the fall of 2022, as soon as I accepted the president’s job at MIT, several of my oldest friends spontaneously…