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The undersigned call on the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke to end its conflicts of interest by denying platforms to Koch-funded diffusers of misinformation.

Terrestrial ecosystems help mitigate climate change by absorbing large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. A new study now confirms that changing climate conditions could reduce this effect.

Bustle interviewed Brenda Hall, a University of Maine professor of glacial geology in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute, about tips for maintaining mental resilience when facing isolation. Hall described her first trip to Antarctica in 1990, when she was 21 years old. “We learned to focus on the […]

Direct exposure to deadly fires increases the risk for mental health disorders In 2018, a faulty electric transmission line ignited the Camp Fire in Northern California, ultimately consuming 239 square miles and several communities, including the town of Paradise, which was 95 percent destroyed. At least 85 people died. Structures have been rebuilt, but some things are worse. In a paper published February 2, 2021 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, scienti...

UC San Diego researchers report that climate change is a chronic mental health stressor, and promotes a variety of mental health problems. The 2018 Camp Fire is a case study.

Faculty heard two proposals from professors in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Wednesday's virtual meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences' faculty governance body.

Karl Kreutz Growing up alongside the Niagara River in New York, Karl Kreutz loved the winter storms that dumped feet of snow and he enjoyed watching ice from Lake Erie flow past his house en route to Niagara Falls. “I didn’t know it at the time, but it really was like an Arctic landscape right in my front yard,” he says. When he learned in a college glacial geology course that a two-mile-thick ice sheet had covered a large swath of the continent until about 15,000 years ago, thin...

Hall kauholocaust in the book, it was actually a thing that was happening in a contained amount of time, that at least, if you wanted to, you could acknowledge was happening, and was bad. part of the problem with climate change is our mines are not geared toward the, were doing x, and the result is y, so a hurricane comes, and a lot of people dont want to discuss the fact that that might be climate-oriented this. last hurricane, the slow-moving hurricane, of greater intensity, that wasnt pushed ...