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Opinion: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Needs to Pay for Its Crimes Against California
It’s not just PG&E’s equipment that leaves California vulnerable to fires. For more than 100 years, the company has released carbon into the atmosphere, aggravating the climate crisis that’s turning the state’s forests into kindling.
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Flooding Significantly Impacts African Food Security, Says Study
At a time when flooding is overtaking many parts of the world, millions of people in Africa are going hungry when croplands, livestock and infrastructure are inundated. But the results are complicated.
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We Need a Realistic Path to Decarbonize New York’s Electric Grid
Decarbonization is largely unpredictable, but there are some elements we can predict.
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Permafrost Emissions Must Be Factored Into Global Climate Targets, Says Study
As the Arctic melts, permafrost there has the potential to send huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, but exactly how much is up for grabs, depending on what we do to stem climate change in coming years.
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Study Upsets Models of How Lake Drainage Within Glaciers May Influence Sea Level
Sudden plunges of lake waters from glacial surfaces to ice-sheet beds may not speed up the movement of Greenland’s tidewater glaciers, as previously thought.
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Why Can’t Taco Bell Tell You It’s Actually Trying To Be Sustainable?
The fast food chain is missing an opportunity to educate its millions of daily consumers on what will truly “make a fiery difference” in saving our planet.
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How Do We Clean Up All That Ocean Plastic?
A number of organizations are attempting to clean up the water, but solving the problem of ocean plastic pollution will also require big changes on land.
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Too Little, Too Late: Study Examines Why the Endangered Species Act Fails
Most species are not receiving protection until their populations are precariously small, thus dimming their prospects of recovery.
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Faculty Profile: Pooja Chawda
An alum of the Sustainability Management program, she is teaching a course on life cycle assessment this fall.
