By Ava Borskey BATON ROUGE, LA — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report with a dire outlook: Climate changes, like warming and sea level rise, are projected to increase in every
By Sydney McGovern BATON ROUGE, LA – The holy grail of stopping climate change is to reduce carbon emissions across all sources to zero. One solution that holds promise is to capture carbon dioxide –
By Sydney McGovern BATON ROUGE, LA – Mead Hardwick is a fourth-generation farmer. His family still lives and works off the same 20,000-acre plot of land that his great-grandfather purchased. He doesn’t fit the conventional
By Ava Borskey BATON ROUGE, LA — Most of Manon Bellet’s artistic work deals with time, ephemerality and disappearance. “Our confrontation of human beings seeing something that we can never catch, metaphorically our lives,
By Domenic Purdy As currencies like bitcoin and dogecoin make digital currency as valid a form of payment as the U.S. dollar and euro, experts seek new environmentally-friendly solutions to the massive amounts of energy cryptocurrency
By Sydney McGovern, Ava Borskey BATON ROUGE, LA – As the threat of climate change grows each year, the American South is at a crossroads. Record-high temperatures, severe storms and rising sea levels threaten the livelihood
By Nicole Nguyen With COVID-19 surging again in the U.S. and the impacts of climate change intensifying, the relevancy of science in politics and public policy is perhaps as important as it’s ever been. The urgency
By Josh Archote Climate change is what science educator Laura Tucker would call a “wicked problem.” Its impacts aren’t immediately obvious to many and require proactive, coordinated responses from governments across the world. It’s the
By Sami Beekman, Nicole Nguyen BATON ROUGE, LA – What do New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charleston, South Carolina, have in common? The foundation of both southern cities’ modern infrastructure was built on marsh land in
By Sydney McGovern BATON ROUGE, LA – If you keep up with climate change, you’ve probably seen images of disaster – homes ravaged by forest fires or cities slain by hurricanes. Aerial shots of flooded
By Domenic Purdy BATON ROUGE, LA — Louisiana State University activists are developing a hydroponic farming system to combat food insecurity in Baton Rouge. The project is in its early stages and is titled the
By Domenic Purdy The American public is becoming increasingly anxious about climate change, especially younger generations. Sixty eight percent of Americans feel climate change is affecting their mental health, according to a 2020 American Psychiatric
By Domenic Purdy Younger generations are more engaged in climate activism and more worried about global warming than their parents. A Pew Research poll from May found that 67% of Generation Z and 71% of
By Sydney McGovern One of President Joe Biden’s primary campaign platforms centered on combating the effects of climate change. He pledged to “tackle the climate emergency, plan for a clean energy future and secure environmental justice.” But after
Tucked away on the western bank of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana, you’ll find an artistic and academic residency retreat known as A Studio in the Woods.
Ama Rogan, the current managing director of A Studio in the Woods, has been with the program since its founding in 2001.
Roughly 75% of public school science teachers in the U.S. teach climate change and almost all public school students likely receive at least some education about recent global warming, according to a 2016 paper from the National Center for Science Education.
But students are receiving mixed messages from teachers about the causes of global warming, the report found.
As the world population nears 10 billion by 2050, overall food demand is expected to increase by over 50%, according to the World Resources Institute. Climate change will make feeding that population more difficult in some regions.
Increased heat stress, rainfall intensity, flooding and drought could reduce crop yields and leave once arable land unusable, leading to food insecurity, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
To grow more food with less land, some farmers and scientists have pointed to the potential of hydroponics, a method of vertical farming.
When Bruce Cameron began teaching a sustainability class at the University of Wyoming in the ‘90s, he was pioneering a less-often offered course about the fashion industry’s impact on the environment.
“It’s evolved completely since then,” Cameron said. “Just about everybody has a class of this form if they have an apparel merchandising type of program on the campus.”
Today, nearly 25 years later, Cameron serves as head of the Textiles, Apparel Design and Merchandising department at Louisiana State University, where he still teaches a sustainability in apparel course.
By Ava Borskey, Nicole Nguyen Jade Cave has lived near the ocean since her family moved to Fiji, a small island in the South Pacific, when she was 6 years old. “I was raised by
By Domenic Purdy The American Conservation Coalition, a conservative-minded environmental advocacy group, hosted their first annual American Conservative Climate Rally on June 5 in Miami, Florida, following the release of their American Climate Contract—the “conservative answer to the Green New
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