Tagged - Climate Change

Climate change is burning up the U.S.

We can’t ignore science if we want to limit the number of environmental crises we experience every year. Read More

The case for climate education

If we wouldn’t send our students to college unprepared, we cannot send them into the climate crisis unprepared either.  Read More
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Research at Rochester: Kazemi examines the problem of human-caused methane

Scientists like senior Roxana Kazemi have been studying the damage that methane has caused on the environmental forefront. Read More

Coronavirus is not the only global crisis

The concern over coronavirus hasn’t particularly fazed me. Sure, it’s a lot more concrete and immediate, but when the back of your mind is always scared that the world will fall apart anyways, the newer global threat loses some of its edge.  Read More

United across generations, Rochesterians march for the climate

Hundreds congregated in front of Rochester City Hall last Friday to urge the city to do its part in combating climate change. The Sept. 27 Rochester Climate Strike, organized in part by the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition, printed a letter on a large poster board entreating Mayor Lovely Warren to ban the installment of natural […]

UR community joins global movement with climate demonstration 

At UR’s "Climate Strike" this past Friday, Pachamama Alliance member Susan Staropoli named three ways people could respond to climate change: denial, defeat, or action. She, along with the dozens of people gathered in Hirst Lounge with signs, petitions, and branded T-shirts, were choosing action.  “This is a pivotal time in history when we decide […]

The answer to the climate crisis is education

At Friday’s climate change demonstration in Wilson Commons, we once again heard about how we can help by making changes in our personal lives like buying organic, or using public transportation.  But people who water their lawns and get to-go orders in styrofoam aren’t ruining the planet. It’s now more widely known that climate change […]

At CR event, a call for action on climate change

College Republicans hosted a panel discussion on climate change solutions this past Thursday with politicians and climate change lobbyists. “We need fresh ideas [on] this campus,” junior and vice president of College Republicans Anthony Pericolo said. The club surveyed students on campus at random and found climate change was the most requested discussion topic from […]

Research Rochester: Henderson models marine iron flux, a key climate change influencer

“[We want to] have a way to predict, under different conditions, how much iron would come out,” Henderson said. Understanding how this works could be pivotal to climate control research. Read More