Environment

Super Storm Sandy, 4 Years Later: Can New York City and New Jersey Expect More Like It In The Future?

Columbia University's Jeff Schlegelmilch underscores how many on the East Coast remain unprepared for the coming change in climate.

October 29, 2016
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Cities have a new agenda, but what about the people?

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Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development conference concluded in Quito with yet another global agreement — the New Urban Agenda.

October 26, 2016
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The Industrial Agricultural System is Limiting Food Access and Driving Climate Change

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Kirtana Chandraeskaran of Friends of the Earth International explains why the UN Conference on World Food Security stopped short of recognizing that the industrial food sector is the greatest agricultural…

October 25, 2016
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Going beyond resilience

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“Rice and corn plants as far as the eye can see are flattened. Many houses were destroyed. I saw one school building crushed under a large tree. It was as…

October 25, 2016
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Keep the Paris promise: Freeze new fossil fuel projects

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The Paris agreement — negotiated by 196 heads of state last December — will enter into force on November 4th, just 3 days before the start of the next UN…

October 24, 2016
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In Warmest Year Ever, Climate Change Ignored Again at Debate

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The presidential and vice-presidential debates have concluded without a single question about climate change, even though 2016 is on pace to be the warmest year on record. We speak to…