Today, I woke up and turned on the coffee pot and the turned on the stove to make breakfast. I fixed my food, ate it, and then took a shower. All of this I did effortlessly, relying on my electricity and heat to take feed and clean me. Then, I went to finish my major […]

What can young people to solve the world’s crises? A few weeks ago, I attended the #KnowYourGoals panel at Emory and left with hope and excitement for our generation’s ability to create solutions to global issues. #KnowYourGoals is a worldwide movement hosted by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network- Youth Initiative (SDSN Youth), focusing on […]

Today, I want to talk about earth systems, namely, what in the world (see what I did there? Kind of?) an earth system is and how they are telling us important things about climate change and our status as a planet. Last week, I heard Dr. Lance Gunderson, the head of the Emory Environmental Science […]

Hi all, It’s been a while since I published a full blog post but I’ve been working on some exciting things and I’m almost ready to share. I have been spending most of my time researching the connection between deforestation and women in Sudan and how this intersection was discussed at the most recent UN […]

If the political climate was not already bad enough, Venezuela is set to be the first country to lose all of its glaciers to climate change. Scientists have predicted the glacier will melt in the next 10-20 years. Developed nations like the United States are responsible for so much of the world’s carbon output, yet […]

In case you missed it, this New York Times piece is an incredible piece of journalism. It’s portrayal of climate change as felt by families in southern India is emotionally gripping, beautifully rendered, and leaves a lasting impact.

Learning more about UN Climate Negotiations from Iceland’s perspective.

In fourth grade (way back in 2004),  I subscribed to National Geographic Kids. In my first edition, there was an article about global warming. The article discussed how doing things like driving cars and leaving the lights on was emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and causing the Earth to warm. The Earth warming meant […]

I was about to embark on a year long study abroad program in Iceland. I was accepted, I had a host family, a school and I could not have been more excited. And then the volcano blew. In the spring of 2010, Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted. While a relatively small volcano eruption, the ensueing ash […]

I have been reading NASA’s “Earth Right Now “climate change blog as a source of inspiration. Recently, NASA funded a trip to Greenland to study the melting glaciers. The blog posts from this trip focus on transporting the reader to Greeland. Through these first-person experiences, science lessons about climate change and the Artic climate are […]