With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in full swing, there is more of a focus on winter sports than ever. As skiers fly off ramps and snowboarders perform daring tricks, more talk of climate change fills...
Between Oct. 31 and Nov. 12, the UN Climate Change Conference took place in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) that brought together world leaders and...
On Sept. 13, a wildfire tore through Spain’s Andalusía region, forcing an estimated 2,600 people to evacuate. The blaze has consumed at least 18,285 acres of land so far, releasing huge plumes of smoke...
Lillian Newton, Contributing Writer
• September 14, 2021
Over the past decade, climate change has been a critical issue in political and international discussion. The issue had long been seen as a problem for the next generation–an issue of the future–as...
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist, is tackling global warming one United Nations Climate Action Summit at a time.
On September 23, Thunberg delivered a speech where she began “criticizing...
Rebecca Tatera, Contributing Writer
• September 26, 2019
After a two-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean, Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old environmental activist, made headlines after announcing her trip had zero carbon emissions.
Thunberg made her trip to...
Recently the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report, “Global Warming of 1.5°C,” that warned we have 12 years to get climate change under control before the world...
“We live in the most prosperous times,” assures Hans Brattskar, aside from what the news is showing. There is a revolution in life expectancy; people are living longer and healthier lives than in...
With the 2012 elections a little over two months away, the presidential candidates are putting their campaigns into over-drive.
Republican hopeful Mitt Romney was no exception this week, as he unveiled...
Another high-profile skeptic of global warming has changed his mind. Physicist Richard Muller announced at the end of October that his team at the University of California at Berkeley
completed...
