Alaskan author Libby B Bushell wins The Moth Nature Writing Prize
Read the second and third-prize winning entries by US poet Molly Lanzarotta and Cavan-born writer and artist Mark Lawlor
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Read the second and third-prize winning entries by US poet Molly Lanzarotta and Cavan-born writer and artist Mark Lawlor
To communicate risks, we often turn to stories. Nuclear weapons conjure stories of mutually assured destruction, briefcases with red buttons, and nuclear winter. Climate change conjures stories of extreme weather, cities overtaken by rising sea levels, and crop failures. Pandemics require little imagination after COVID, but were previously the subject
Fifty top scientists warn climate change and biodiversity loss are one and the same, and world leaders need to start addressing them in tandem.
December 17, 2020 More than 25 students in Fred Cohan’s Global Change and Infectious Disease course have had op-eds published in media outlets nationwide. Cohan, professor of biology and Huffington Foundation Professor in the College of the Environment (pictured), assigns the op-ed writing as part of his course and offers students extra credit if they are able to get their work published. As part of the BIO 173: Global Change and Infectious Disease course, Professor Fred Cohan assigns students to write an essay persuading others to prevent future and mitigate present infectious diseases. If...