Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco: This past semester I had the good fortune of working with a group of students through a “Service Learning Project” in a class on Environmental Justice at the University of California Berkeley. The work focused on Community Air Monitoring, exploring...
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dbailey/community_air_monitoring_a_s
Why we pretend the next storm won’t happen—and flush billions in disaster relief down the drain. Two months after Hurricane Sandy pummeled New York City, Battery Park is again humming with tourists and hustlers, guys selling foam Statue of Liberty crowns, and commuters shuffling off the Staten Island
http://climatedesk.org/2013/07/flood-rebuild-repeat-are-we-ready-for-a
Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C.: This blog was jointly written with Danielle Droitsch, Senior Attorney and Canada Project Director at NRDC. In an interview last week with the New York Times, President Obama outlined in remarkable detail how the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would...
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/eshope/president_obama_acknowledges_
El Paso get half its water from the Elephant Butte Reservoir. And it disappearing. Right now, El Paso drier than an cow bone baking in the Chihuahuan Desert, and an important source of water for drinking and farming has shrunk into the sandy puddle you see below. The vast desolation of the Elepha
http://climatedesk.org/2013/07/harsh-drought-is-drying-up-new-mexicos-
Recent polling has shown that the public — and younger voters in particular — are increasingly turned off by candidates who deny climate science and plan to make it a voting issue. Environmentalist candidates have proactively used the issue in ads in 2013 MA, NJ, and VA statewide races. The post As
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/30/2379301/climate-change-can
Humanity faces 70 feet of sea level rise, possibly coming much sooner than has been expected if we continue with unrestricted carbon pollution. The post Greenland And Antarctica ‘May Be Vulnerable To Rapid Ice Loss Through Catastrophic Disintegration’ appeared first on ThinkProgress.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/30/2341511/greenland-antarcti
Wildfires have been bad in the United States, and worsening. With a changing climate, the outlook looks even more bleak. The post A Nation On Fire: Climate Change And The Burning Of America appeared first on ThinkProgress.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/31/2312591/climate-change-wil
