To say that we’re tired of hearing about the 2016 election would be an understatement. It’s pretty much impossible to open any newspaper, magazine or blog site without being blasted by fresh Clinton and Trump one-liners fromContinue reading
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Let’s Make a (Climate) Deal
It was the kind of Saturday that makes you want to drop everything and run outside. The sun was shining, the leaves were beginning to show their fall colors, and homework wouldn’t be due for atContinue reading
Why We Need Some Silver Buckshot
It’s not an easy time to be an environmentalist. Everywhere we look, we’re bombarded by stories about how the planet is falling apart because of us. Climate change is getting worse. A third of all speciesContinue reading
USA: The Hmong Community’s Interactions with Public Lands in Wisconsin
Wisconsin public land management currently falls short of providing appropriate and inclusive services to all of Wisconsin’s residents.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessments
UNEP conducted a post-conflict assessment report in Bosnia and Herzegovina, reporting on the environmental and health impacts of the depleted uranium munitions used by the United States and NATO forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 war after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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Peru: Environmental Degradation in the Andes
Peru is incredibly geographically diverse, but the Andean highlands present the most urgent challenges from climate change.
Madagascar: Prosimian Protection & Community Capacity Building with the Duke Lemur Center
Earlier this month, millennials and the Duke University community mourned the death of Jovian, the Coquerel’s sifaka lemur better known as “Zoboomafoo” from the late 1990’s PBS Kids show of the same name.
Vietnam & The USA: The Continuing War
During the Vietnam War, American forces sprayed more than 11 million gallons of Agent Orange, an herbicide, over Vietnam as part of an attritional warfare strategy to destroy the forest cover of the Viet Cong and to destroy their food supply.
USA: Environmental Inequity in Alabama
2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation, an incredibly overwhelming statistic. It also seems far away, endemic to developing countries like India. It hardly seems conceivable that in the United States ofContinue reading
India: Sanitation & Environmental Health in Rural Rajasthan Communities
India’s sanitation crisis affects both the health and personal security of the 840 million people in the country without access to clean and safe sanitation services.