climate change
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Finding common ground in water
When pressed to summarize the path of his wide spanning career, Paul Adams offers one word, “discourse.”
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The Earth’s Keepers: How Religion Can Guide Environmentalism
If you knew in the next life you’d become a tree, you might hesitate before you cut one down. Or if you were to become one of the ocean’s fish, perhaps you’d be more careful about how you dispose of certain plastics. That’s Karma, at least as it’s applied in an environmental context, which might…
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Meanwhile in Peru: Report from an Epicenter of Climate Change
In the Peruvian Andes, the future is now. In fact, people there are incredulous that lawmakers in the United States actually debate climate change, and baffled that many North Americans challenge the worldwide scientific consensus that Earth’s average temperature is steadily on the rise. South American climate observers (i.e., regular citizens as well as scientists)…
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Meteorologist Troy Kimmel Talks Tornadoes and Climate Change
Troy Kimmel is a senior lecturer of Studies in Weather and Climate in the Department of Geography and the Environment. He is a committee member/instant meteorologist for University of Texas Campus Safety and Security, as well as committee chief meteorologist, KOKE FM Radio, Austin. A monster EF-5 tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb of…
