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Sea Turtle Influx Due to COVID-19

“One benefit from coronavirus closing beaches? There’s hope for a strong turtle nesting season,” by Austen Erblat on April 1, 2020 for the Sun Sentinel, a Florida based newspaper. This story … Continue reading

April 25, 2020 · Leave a comment

Looking back: 10 years later, the Gulf Coast still attempting recovery

In Oliver Milman’s story “‘I pray to God it never happens again’: US Gulf Coast bears scars of historic oil spill 10 years on”, the reader is given a glimpse … Continue reading

April 23, 2020 · Leave a comment

Rain gardens help prevent sewage overflow

Frances Stead Sellers’ feature story “A green solution to an aging stormwater system” published on April 9 2020 for the Washington Post, centers Philadelphia’s initiatives to clean up its city’s … Continue reading

April 18, 2020 · Leave a comment

WE DON’T NEED TO SACRIFICE THE POOR TO SAVE THE PLANET (and other thoughts on Ecofascism)

A Twitter user posted the following on March 17, a couple of weeks after many governments started imposing stay-at-home orders as a result of the covid 19 pandemic: The tweet … Continue reading

April 11, 2020 · Leave a comment

From Air to Alcohol – a new approach to greenhouse gas reduction

In Christopher Flavelle’s news story, “Vodka From Thin Air: An Unusual Climate Prize Hits a Coronavirus Snag”, Flavelle tells his audience of the startup Air Co., and how its race … Continue reading

April 11, 2020 · Leave a comment