Settler colonial policies aimed at prohibiting Indigenous controlled burnings have left dry land throughout California ripe for powerful wildfires.
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This week… Lee Zeldin confirmed as EPA administrator amidst funding chaos, Florida slammed with a surprise snowstorm and urban rats benefiting from climate change.
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This week… egg prices soar in the U.S., icebergs are on the move and Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement.
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The decision represents a significant shift in U.S. climate policy with profound implications for local communities, the national economy and the global effort to address climate change.
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This week… wildfires rage across Los Angeles, oil and gas corporations continue to amass wealth and native residents of the Wind River Indian Reservation protest against land theft.
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Plant Futures may be the newest club on Northwestern’s sustainability scene, but it’s already making big moves. See how founder and president Sam Rappin combines passion with profession to make a difference in the world of plant-based food.
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Jade Sasser’s book provides a talking point for the inequalities wrapped up inside climate advocates’ population argument.
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Feel your hay fever worsening when you’re on campus? Northwestern’s selective tree-planting practices may be to blame. Find out more about “botanical sexism” and what it means for urban environments.
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This week… 31,000 acres of public land returned to the Penobscot Nation in Maine, an inadequate climate financing deal at COP29, and protests across Aotearoa (New Zealand) to protect Indigenous land rights.
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This week… the COP29 climate summit kicks off in Azerbaijan, wildfires ravage New York and New Jersey and rising sea temperatures devastate the mussel industry in Greece.
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This week… the COP29 climate summit kicks off in Azerbaijan, wildfires ravage New York and New Jersey and rising sea temperatures devastate the mussel industry in Greece.
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This week… unusually warm weather in the Chicago area, the carbon footprint of Taylor Swift’s two-year Eras Tour and deadly flooding in Valencia, Spain.
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Stay informed about the environment this election! Lily Zufall breaks down the climate policies of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris so you know who to vote for.
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This week… the UN publishes its annual Emissions Gap Report, Pacific Island nations at risk of sinking under the waves and a controversial mega-development on a historic floodplain in South Carolina.
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This week… the UN talks biodiversity in Colombia, a Spanish team develops better solar cells and Australian beaches covered in mysterious tar blobs.
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This week… Hurricane Milton batters Florida, fossil fuel advertising in sports and heat waves caused by… corn?
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Welcome back to This Week On Earth for the 2024-2025 academic year! This week... devastating floods in Nepal caused by global warming, deforestation law delayed in the Europe and nuclear waste piling up in the U.S.
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Editor Lula Fox reveals the environmental devastation wrought by Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip.
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How one Northwestern course offers students a chance to tap trees, collect sap and cook their own maple syrup.
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This week... cicadas arrive on campus in force, NOAA calls for a record-breaking hurricane season and Caribbean coral reefs reel from the effects of unusually warm water temperatures.
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