Why Are Women More Vulnerable to Flooding in India?
Written by: Deepa Padmanaban
In India, floods are the most frequently occurring natural hazard, accounting for 47 percent of all natural disasters and claiming 1,700 lives per year on average. Although studies have shown women to be more vulnerable to natural disasters, so far there is little information on whether or...
Scientists Understood Physics of Climate Change in the 1800s – Thanks to a Woman Named Eunice Foote
Written by: Sylvia G. Dee
Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis.
The year was 1856. Foote’s brief scientific paper was...
Climate Is More Than A Concern, It Is A Common Heritage
Written by: Kimberly White
Climate change is no longer just a threat to future generations or some far away place. It is happening now, and it affects all of us, no matter where we live.
Climate change is causing extreme weather events all around the world....
Will a Native-led Initiative Spur an Agricultural Revolution in Rural Alaska?
Written by: Max Graham
When Eva Dawn Burk first saw Calypso Farm and Ecology Center in 2019, she felt enchanted. Calypso is an educational farm tucked away in a boreal forest in Ester, Alaska, near Fairbanks. To Burk, it looked like a subarctic Eden, encompassing...
Ingmar Rentzhog- Together We Are the Solution: How Social Media Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis
https://youtu.be/O6qBlTQBwxw
Interview TranscriptTranscribed by Otter AI
Kimberly WhiteHello and welcome to The Planetary Podcast. Today we are joined by Ingmar Rentzhog, Founder of We Don't Have Time. Thank you so much for joining us today, Ingmar!
Ingmar RentzhogThank you so much, Kimberly.
Kimberly WhiteYou and the We Don't...
Helena Lindemark: Climate Change- We’re In This Together and We Need To Solve It Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBn_X6E5DE
Interview TranscriptTranscribed by Otter AI
Kimberly WhiteHello and welcome to Common Home Conversations. Today we're joined by Helena Lindemark, Founder of the 2022 Initiative Foundation. Thank you so much for joining us!
Helena LindemarkThank you for having me. Delighted to be here.
Kimberly WhiteCan you tell us...
Indigenous Groups Accuse Brazil’s Bolsonaro of Genocide, Call on the ICC to Investigate
Written by: Kimberly White
Indigenous groups in Brazil are calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro for genocide and ecocide.
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples from Brazil (APIB) filed a statement with the ICC accusing the Bolsonaro administration of genocide and...
Circularity and The Race to Zero: How a Circular Economy Could Help Combat the Climate Crisis
The countdown is on for the Exponential Climate Action Summit: Circularity and The Race to Zero, a global broadcast focused on the challenges, opportunities, and solutions regarding circularity and resource efficiency. The broadcast premieres on September 23rd at 8 am EST.
The event is organized by...
Hollywood Climate Summit: Entertainment Industry Joins Together to Address the Climate Crisis
The entertainment industry is coming together to address the climate emergency. The Hollywood Climate Summit has officially kicked off its four-day interactive conference.
Presented by Netflix and NYU Los Angeles and produced by YEA! Impact, the summit aims to spur the entertainment industry to take...
Nobel Prize: Why Climate Modellers Deserved the Physics Award – They’ve Been Proved Right Again and Again
Written by: Dr. Pushp Raj Tiwari
This year’s Nobel prize in physics has been split between Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi. While Parisi is a theoretical physicist, the other two are climate modellers whose work laid the foundations of our understanding of how carbon...
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Written by: Charles Masquelier, Carolyn Petersen, and Matt Lobley
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‘Coding for Climate’ organizes students to develop climate solutions
Written by: YCC Team
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