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How Pacific islanders are fighting climate change with canoes

Climate change is hitting the Pacific Islands hard. Sea levels are rising, temperatures are increasing, worsening storm surges and flooding have contaminated fresh water supplies and ruined crops. Already, residents of one isla...

by Fenton Lutunatabua

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Seagrass Struggles: Why Seagrass Is Important And In Danger

The Great Barrier Reef: a monstrous hunk of calcium carbonate that supports an extensive network of sea animals by providing food and shelter. How often have we heard about the danger that the Reef is in? Too many times to coun...

by Brian Watts

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The Current Economic Model: A Destructive Social Construct?

As the world witnesses an Ebola outbreak that has been hyped by the media as the next Black Plague, we are left to wonder why the problem of climate change doesn’t attract as much attention. Unarguably, climate change is real...

by Apratim Vidyarthi

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Environmental education in the U.S.: A work in progress

Knowing about the flora and fauna of the natural world has always been a part of the scientific curriculum in schools; however, a more nuanced field of environmental education that includes climate issues is growing for a few r...

by Brian Watts

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Talk Is Cheap: Can UN Climate Change Summit Turn Rhetoric Into Action?

The world holds its breath: protesters rally on the streets of New York ahead of Tuesday’s United Nations’ Climate Change Summit, 2014.

by Kamleshan Pillay

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South Korea: Ambitious leaps to secure a green future?

In the beginning of January 2015, South Korean government passed legislation proposing the world’s 2nd largest carbon trading scheme that would cut emissions by 30% by the year 2020.

by Brian Watts

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UN Climate Summit: The Most Important Developments

Though the UN Climate Summit last week brought no major agreements in the fight against climate change, it was widely considered a success.

by Tímea Fazekas

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How Pacific islanders are fighting climate change with canoes

Seagrass Struggles: Why Seagrass Is Important And In Danger

The Current Economic Model: A Destructive Social Construct?

Environmental education in the U.S.: A work in progress

Talk Is Cheap: Can UN Climate Change Summit Turn Rhetoric Into Action?

South Korea: Ambitious leaps to secure a green future?

UN Climate Summit: The Most Important Developments

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