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Is Climate Change a National Security Issue?
Retired military officials belonging to a nonprofit research and analysis organization first communicated to US policymakers and the public that climate change is a threat multiplier to national security issues in 2007. They sought information from climate scientists, business leaders, and others studying climate change to shape a detailed report containing strategies for protecting US […]
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The Beekeeper’s Lament
Air humid enough to make your nostril hairs recoil when you step outside. Pavement scorching hot to the point where you feel bad for your shoes. Occasional thunderstorms that don’t last long enough to cool down the baking soil. This is what I call reading weather, because there is nothing you can do other than […]
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Green Grabbing: The Modern-Day Colonization
Imagine waking up one day to the news that your land, which you and your tribe have subsisted on for generations, has been sold by the government to someone else. In return, you will be moved to a small plot of land without the same kinds of resources as before. This loss of land creates […]
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Learning Behind Bars
According to the Innocence Project, an estimated 200,000 people in jail right now have been falsely convicted and imprisoned, and that is believed to be a conservative approximation. Especially given this fact, I think it makes sense to make the prison experience less like a prolonged form of torture and more like one that welcomes […]
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A Change Is Gonna Come
The vile history of racial injustice in America has unveiled itself once more through the stories of police brutality and protests currently flooding the news and social media. As an African American woman and PhD student, this is something that has an impact on my life in many ways. I know that a change is […]
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Recessions are a Second Chance to Divest
Did you know that fossil fuels in the US are subsidized? The reason for this is that the domestic American fossil fuel market was once young and unstable, though since then it has ballooned into a mature, lucrative business. The federal government’s financial support of coal, oil, and natural gas guaranteed cheap and plentiful energy […]
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Kabartal Wetland
Another wetland biography up on my blog – this time we travel to India!
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The Timber Era of Wisconsin
Research on restoration gives insight on how we can better support wetland recovery. Read how in my new post.
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Running from Rising Seas
Global mean sea level is both rising and accelerating. By the year 2100, it is predicted to rise by 0.61–1.10 m under the business-as-usual climate change scenario according to the latest IPCC report. This estimate is likely to increase as that deadline looms closer, as scientists discover more compounding effects of climate change. Although melting […]
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The Death of a Year
It’s snowing where I am right now and I’m reflecting on how grateful I am for all of the good things that 2019 brought. Here are the things I accomplished: Published my first coauthored peer-reviewed paper in a scientific journal Was included as a coauthor on another peer-reviewed paper in review Wrote my first grant […]
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