How Climate Change Is Altering American Coastlines Kevin Gardner Science & Medicine America's coastlines are highly populated areas. Upwards of 25 million Americans are at risk for coastal flooding, and an even greater share of Americans could be adversely affected by climate change if...
Hippo Reading List: Hurricane Harvey Hippo Reads Staff Science & Medicine Now that the devastatingly powerful Hurricane Harvey has made landfall, Texas is struggling to pick up the pieces, as the country at large wonders what we can learn from this disaster. (Don't forget to donate...
“Climate Change is a Human Rights Issue”: An Interview with Naomi Ages of Greenpeace Hippo Reads Staff Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine Naomi Ages is the climate liability project lead at Greenpeace USA, out there fighting the good environmental fight day after day. Our editor Tori Telfer chatted with her about keeping the oil and gas...
Are We Mature Enough to Deal with Climate Change? Glenn McLaren Philosophy, Science & Medicine One does not transcend nature; one transcends the abstractions which alienate us from it.
Of Zombies and Trump: Changing the World with Microtargeting Morgan Saletta Politics & Economics, Society & Culture Zombies helped Trump get elected. Zombies? That's right. "It's Official: the Walking Dead Helped Elect Trump," proclaims The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. And no, I'm not talking massive undead voter...
Black Carbon, Health, and the Power of Women’s Leadership UCLA Center for the Study of Women Gender Studies, Science & Medicine Black Carbon (BC), a product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, doesn't just contribute to climate change--it also contributes to chemical exposure. Commonly referred to as “soot”, BC emissions are...
Are Warming Temperatures a Scientific Consensus or Hoax? It Depends on Your Political Party Erik Kojola Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine Riley Dunlap, Aaron McCright, and Jerrod Yarosh, “The Political Divide on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in the U.S.,” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable...
