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Climate, Creatures, and Contamination
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Introduction
Fires. Floods. Lead. Protests. Campaigns. These days the world is rife with controversies over environmental concerns. These concerns are…
John Zinda
Feb 8, 2021
When Facts Aren’t Enough: The Paradigm of Climate Change Skepticism and Denial
When Facts Aren’t Enough: The Paradigm of Climate Change Skepticism...
In 2003, Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick published an explosive paper claiming to have disproven the existing science of the famous…
Madeline Gaus
Feb 8, 2021
A Burning Hellscape: The Impact of Government, Industry, and Activism on Amazonian Deforestation
A Burning Hellscape: The Impact of Government, Industry, and Activi...
In mid-2019, news sources all over the world plastered images of charred canopies and blackened wood; scenes of billowing smoke…
Sofia Blasini Frontera
Feb 5, 2021
Controversies in Communicating Climate Change and the Environment
Controversies in Communicating Climate Change and the Environment
Environment and climate change communication has always been a critical part of the environmental justice and protection movement…
Aminah Taariq-Sidibe
Feb 5, 2021
The Untold Story of Rural America’s Clean Water Crisis
The Untold Story of Rural America’s Clean Water Crisis
Rural America: the agricultural heartland, backbone of the United States, home to 60 million Americans (19% of the total United States…
Emily Prest
Feb 5, 2021
North Carolina Hog Farming: Impacts of Hog Waste on Local Communities
North Carolina Hog Farming: Impacts of Hog Waste on Local Communities
Origin of a Crisis
Gabe Welch
Feb 3, 2021
How Climate Gentrification Gets Ignored
How Climate Gentrification Gets Ignored
The people of Miami share a history of escaping hardship. Cubans fled to Miami seeking refuge from the disruptive uprising of Fidel Castro…
Tomas de las Casas
Feb 3, 2021
Political Marginalization, Protest, and PCBs: Double Diversion in Warren County
Political Marginalization, Protest, and PCBs: Double Diversion in W...
In the middle of a July night in 1978, trucks owned by Ward Transformer Company drove down the dark highways of North Carolina pouring out…
Katherine Ratner
Feb 3, 2021
Japan’s Whales
Japan’s Whales
In 2019, Japan left the IWC and resumed commercial whaling. A culture that has stood against international pressure now stands alone.
Noah Schulman
Jul 20, 2020
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