Posts
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Student Spotlight: Two Undergrads Interning to Advance NY State’s Climate Policy
Two students in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development share their summer internship experiences and reflections.
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New Tools Track Action on Climate Laws in New York State and NYC
The trackers will help to hold officials accountable for meeting important climate deadlines.
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Climate Change and the American Political Agenda
We’ve managed to avoid the topic for decades, but the force of public opinion is finally ending the era of American national climate nondecision-making.
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Fleeing the Climate: the ‘Great Migration’ Ahead
A new model finds that areas where humans can barely survive, which currently cover about 1 percent of the planet, will grow to about 20 percent within the next 50 years
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This ‘Green’ Space Shouldn’t Be So White
There are steps individuals can take to support more diversity in the environmental sciences.
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Glacier Town at Risk in Next Great New Zealand Earthquake
The tourist town of Franz Josef, at the base of a large glacier of the same name, could be at the epicenter of the next magnitude 8 rupture along the Alpine Fault line.
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Kamala Harris’ Plan For International Climate Cooperation Could Smooth the Transition From Fossil Fuels
A coalition of leading governments would help secure an equitable, efficient, and just transition to the energy sources of the future.
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Greenland Ice Sheet Saw Record Loss in 2019
An international team of polar researchers says that the Greenland ice sheet experienced record loss in 2019.
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Leading Himalayan Organization Takes a Historical Step by Appointing a Leader From Bhutan
Pema Gyamtsho from Bhutan will be the first Asian to ever serve as director general for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
