The UWI kicks off Earth Month with April 7 webinar
Share this post:
The UWI Regional Headquarters Jamaica. Tuesday, April 6, 2021. It’s been a long COVID-19 year for teachers and students. Meanwhile, in another threat facing the world’s population, the planet kept getting hotter; 2020 tied for the hottest year that humans have ever experienced. Yet, it is likely that 2020 will be one of the coolest years in the next 100 unless we change course quickly. As Earth Month (April) begins, many educators are focused on how to engage students on this critical issue.
This April, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is helping overworked teachers, from every subject, bring climate change into the classroom. This opportunity is not just for environmental science classes. Climate change touches every discipline: psychology, political science, engineering, literature, natural science, art, communication, music, economics, philosophy and more.
His presence is everywhere : Ecologist David Schindler remembered by Experimental Lakes scientist
David Schindler, a world-famous fighter for Canada s fresh waters, is leaving a legacy of a big personality and even bigger ideas, according to his successor at the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) near the Ontario-Manitoba border.
Social Sharing
CBC News ·
David Schindler died on Thursday at 80 years old. (John Ulan)
David Schindler, a world-famous fighter for Canada s fresh waters, is leaving a legacy of a big personality and even bigger ideas, according to his successor at the Experimental Lakes Area.
Schindler died on Thursday. He was 80 years old.
For more than 20 years until 1989, Schindler headed the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) project in Ontario, just over the Manitoba border, where he conducted original research into the role of phosphorus in fish-killing algae blooms at the freshwater research facility.
The Globe and Mail Jameson Berkow Published February 11, 2021
Richard Vogel/The Associated Press
Plans to combat climate change are quickly evolving from nice-to-have to necessary for survival in the corporate world.
Pledges to go carbon-neutral, once billed as bold acts of environmental leadership, are now key to maintaining a competitive edge across many sectors.
“We have entered a phase where staying with the status quo is now the larger gamble,” says Matthew Hoffman, a political-science professor at the University of Toronto and co-director of its Environmental Governance Lab.
Story continues below advertisement
“The entire business environment is now climate-constrained. There are enough trend lines in terms of market signals, policy signals and social signals that we should be seeing more announcements” around net-zero emission.
Global food security and the Norwich Research Park February 11, 2021, 2:47 PM IST
“It is hoped the combined expertise of the city’s scientific community can help counteract stark predictions that yields of major staple foods like grains, fruits and vegetables could decrease by between 3pc and 10 pc per degree of warming as global temperatures continue to rise” ……write Chris Hill in Norwich Evening News (Feb 1, 2021) under the heading of “City’s new science centre aims to solve ‘critical’ world food problems”. This in the context of Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development a centre created on the Norwich Research Park headed by Prof Nitya Rao. The mandate of the centre to solve critical issues of global food security in the midst of growing threat of climate change. The director of the new institute, said “communities all over the globe are impacted by food shortages and rising prices, but poorer less-developed countries
Paris climate accord: Biden announces US will rejoin landmark agreement By: CNN
By Drew Kann and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) Hours after he was sworn in, President Joe Biden announced the US plans to reenter the Paris climate accord, the landmark international agreement signed in 2015 to limit global warming, in a sign of Biden s urgency to address the climate crisis.
Experts say that rejoining the agreement s is a significant step by the Biden administration to reverse the climate policies of the last four years. But now comes the hard work.
As he takes the reins of the executive branch, the challenges that Biden faces rival any confronted by his 45 predecessors an out-of-control pandemic, a sputtering economy and the threat of right-wing extremist violence stoked by viral misinformation.