Odds that President Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize this year are 20 to one, according to “VENT,” one photographer’s response to climate change. Odds that he will say aliens exist, if you ask the same photographer? Also 20 to one. “VENT” is just one of an immeasurable amount of responses to global […]

We’ve seen 16 of history’s hottest recorded years since 2000, said Eri Saikawa, assistant professor in Emory’s Department of Environmental Sciences, during an online lecture published Oct. 26. In 2016, new record-high temperatures were set for the third year in a row. Most individual months in 2016 ranked among the warmest recorded. This all seems […]

I had an epiphany a few months ago: at the core of society lies a value for the freedom and power of the press. Few experiences provide people with the same satisfaction they encounter when they stumble upon an article that oozes drama. I write, research, cold call and fact check for that satisfaction. This semester at […]

Marshall Shepherd recounted the story of a married couple whose home flooded during Hurricane Harvey. The husband and wife had fallen under the impression that the media was exaggerating Harvey’s potential, and they had decided to take minimal precautions while preparing for the storm. But when Harvey hit, it hit hard. And it completely flooded […]

Harry Gray prefers his nuclear power plants at least 93 million miles away, he told a full audience of Emory students and professors during an Oct. 12 lecture. But to minimize the global need for these power plants, he said, it has become necessary that we find a way to most efficiently convert sunlight into […]

Watch my iMovie below, and watch a complete Earth Savers performance here. It’s a hopeful situation when the United States gets a shout-out at any UNCCC event, considering that United States President Donald Trump recently relinquished his own support. It’s even more hopeful when a Philippines representative, whose emotions ran high throughout her course as a […]

Information availability once again took the forefront of discussion during a UNCCC panel relating climate change and human wellbeing. During this panel, Mikael Eriksson, ambassador for international energy affairs, and Gernot Laganda, World Food Program (WFP) climate and disaster risk reduction program unit director, called for a “livelihood approach” so that we can fully understand […]

Listen to my podcast here, or using the “play” button below.  Three Scripps Institute of Oceanography students and 100 Island Challenge team members dove deeper into the relationship between Pacific Islanders and their environments on the sixth day of the UNCCC. Emily Kelly, a member of the team seeking to bolster reef monitoring and management […]

Watch my cartoon here. Wesley Morgan, lecturer for international relations at the University of the South Pacific, tied together disaster displacement, law and humanity in the first week of the UNCCC. “Forced displacement as a result of human-induced climate change represents, in itself, a breach of fundamental human rights,” he said in his opening statement. […]

Listen to my podcast here, or using the “play” button below. One of the first press briefings held during this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) took marginalized populations from neglected countries and placed them at the forefront of discussion. There’s an information issue that limits what these populations can do, especially when rising […]