Tag: climate change
UCR should plan future projects around existing mature foliage, not on...
If one spent time on the western part of UCR’s campus during the fall quarter, they would have noticed some interesting changes to the...
A message to celebrities who are ‘Fonda’ political activism: please don’t...
Two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda spent part of her 82nd birthday in a Washington, D.C. jail this past December. This wouldn’t be the first...
Choosing morality over convenience: consumers cannot be allowed to forget that...
Amazon customers have had reason to rejoice as of late. Whereas up until very recently the company required Prime members to spend at least...
Nuking the stigma around nuclear power
The phrase “nuclear power” often brings to mind images of mushroom clouds forming over the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That being said, nuclear...
The importance of understanding climate change’s evil twin: ocean acidification
The ocean absorbs about 30% of airborne carbon dioxide which results in a reduction in airborne carbon. This sounds good in theory, but it...
The Amazon fires must be approached with both haste and caution
August saw social media lit up with discussion of the Amazon rainforest fires, and one month later those same fires are still burning bright....
The conservative counterpoint to climate change
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has been the target of media attention as the ethicality of his decisions as pilot of the agency have come...
CE-CERT prepares climate and air quality training program for summer launch
Just around a year ago, the South Coast Air Quality Management District donated $1 million to fund the Air Quality and Climate Change Training...
UCR professor awarded STEM fellowship to further research on climate change
Sandra Kirtland Turner, an assistant professor of earth sciences at UCR, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for her work to reconstruct past...
2017 is the second hottest year on record: Why we need...
On Thursday, Jan. 18, NASA released an analysis of last year’s global temperature, claiming it to be the second warmest year since 1880. While...