Climate

Timothy Lieuwen proposes a framework that universities can use to evaluate potential research funding relationships with oil and gas companies in light of their own values.

Review of Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology by Liliana Doganova.

Melissa K. Nelson shares her thoughts on the impacts of climate change on Native American communities, agriculture, and what can be learned from Indigenous sustainability practices. 

Faheem Hussain shares how Rohingya refugees are using a combination of online and offline technologies to create networks to share information in response to disasters.

Solar Canoes Against Deforestation is working to develop a solar-powered canoe that can bring renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure to the Amazon. The story of the canoe offers lessons about how to meaningfully work with communities to understand their needs and co-produce solutions.

Danae Hernandez-Cortes shares how economics can be used to advance environmental justice and protect disadvantaged communities.

Centering the goals and knowledge of Native land stewards in federal data and definitions of “climate smart” agriculture could nourish communities while incentivizing carbon sequestration across millions of acres.

With the two-decade effort to tie climate policy to a stratigraphic decision concluded, there is an opportunity to think more imaginatively about engaging publics in environmental policies.

Monique Verdin joins host JD Talasek to discuss using art and science to understand a Gulf that is being reshaped by climate, industry, and more. A citizen of the United Houma Nation, Verdin’s art practice and community activism give voice to indigenous and marginalized communities in the South while building bridges with science communities.

Monique Verdin’s work seeks to understand the profound ways that climate, the fossil fuel industry, and the shifting waters of the Gulf of Mexico are changing a place that has been a refuge for her Houma ancestors.

Decisionmakers need insights on how this powerful current shapes hurricanes, fisheries, energy supplies, and life in the Gulf of Mexico. An ambitious project to collect data and predict the current’s erratic behavior is compelling scientists to cross disciplines as well as borders.

Sustainable chemistry is having a moment. Now it needs an actionable road map that outlines an ambitious, focused, and coordinated strategy at the federal level.