Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Beverly James, University of Florida
Global climate change has already impacted every aspect of life on Earth, from genes to entire ecosystems, according to a new study in Science.
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- Written by: Andrew Revkin ProPublica
President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight years in the White House.
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- Written by: Rupesh Paudyal, University of Leeds
Forget about oil or gas – you should be worrying about the less discussed but far more concerning fact that the world is running out of clean, drinkable water.
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- Written by: Rob Jordan, Stanford University
A major opportunity for avoiding climate change’s worst impacts lies in reducing methane emissions, particularly from food production, according to a pair of new studies.
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- Written by: Fred Love, Iowa State University
Gene Takle, professor of agronomy and geological and atmospheric sciences at Iowa State University, says tall wind turbines disbursed throughout a field create air turbulence that may help plants by affecting variables such as temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations.
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- Written by: Steve Tally, Purdue University
For a period about a million years ago Greenland wasn’t covered in ice. Researchers say the discovery suggests it’s possible the ice sheet could go away again.
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- Written by: Zenobia Jeffries, YES! Magazine
Detroit-area resident Shamayim Harris bought more than 10 properties on her block. She’s now converting them into sustainable community spaces for education, wellness, and economic development.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
A new theoretical model may lead to timelier, accurate forecasts of the central Pacific El Niño, an important weather-maker. Any El Niño is a period of warmer-than-normal sea-surface temperature in the equatorial Pacific.
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- Written by: Gillian Kiley, Brown University
Climate-related catastrophes are expensive, whether they come on suddenly, like the thousand-year flood in Louisiana in August 2016, or move slowly and inexorably, like desertification in Turkey.
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- Written by: Thania Benios, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Since the 1980s, air pollution has increased worldwide, but it has increased at a much faster pace in regions close to the equator.
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- Written by: Keith Randall, Texas A&M University
Hurricane and tropical storm development from three million years ago might give today’s forecasters a good blueprint for 21st-century storms.
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- Written by: Sean Barton, University of Sheffield
Scientists now agree: warmer weather in the Arctic and a wavy jet stream are influencing winter weather in the UK and US.
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- Written by: Ker Than, Stanford University
The bulk of methane emissions in the United States can be traced to a small number of “super-emitting” natural gas wells.
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- Written by: Sean Barton, Cardiff University
Ice ages on Earth used to occur at intervals of every 40,000 years. But at a point about a million years ago, ice age intervals switched to every 100,000 years.
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- Written by: Deke Arndt, Climate.gov
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (and several other institutions) reported April 2016 to be the warmest April on record for the planet. All of the previous twelve months now hold the “Warmest [INSERT MONTH HERE] on Record” title. That’s twelve months in a row, and that’s never happened.
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- Written by: Anna Claussen
Educating rural communities can help them prevent permanent damage to the environment. There is a common misconception that you can’t talk about climate change in rural communities because the issue is considered too polarizing...
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- Written by: La Monica Everett-Haynes, University of Arizona
The destructive nature of Hurricane Matthew—which resulted in hundreds of deaths in Haiti, dozens more in the US, and extensive damage still being assessed—was a test of strength in communications systems, infrastructure, and ultimately the resilience of communities.
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- Written by: Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona
People depend on grass crops for food, but new research raises concerns that if climate changes too fast, grasses won’t adapt fast enough to keep pace.
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- Written by: Ken Branson, Rutgers University
New York City can expect nine-foot floods, as intense as the one produced by 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, at least three times more frequently over the next century—and possibly as much as 17 times more frequently, say researchers.
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- Written by: Hamish Gordon and Cat Scott, University of Leeds
The pre-industrial atmosphere contained more particles, and so brighter clouds, than we previously thought. This is the latest finding of the CLOUD experiment, a collaboration between around 80 scientists at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva.
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- Written by: John DeCicco, University of Michigan
Ever since the 1973 oil embargo, U.S. energy policy has sought to replace petroleum-based transportation fuels with alternatives. One prominent option is using biofuels, such as ethanol in place of gasoline and biodiesel instead of ordinary diesel.
