Climate | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/climate/ The best minds on the most important topics. Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:15:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Climate | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/climate/ 32 32 When Oil and Gas Companies Go to School https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/ https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43615 Funding for university research programs by the oil and gas (O&G) industry is increasingly controversial in the United States. A 2023 Guardian article, for instance, described student “unease” upon learning that an… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/feed/ 0 The Puzzle of Pricing the Future https://issues.org/discounting-the-future-review-simpson/ https://issues.org/discounting-the-future-review-simpson/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43572 Liliana Doganova describes her book, Discounting the Future: The Ascendency of a Political Technology, as a study in the “historical sociology” of discounting. Discounting—determining what value to place on income in… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/discounting-the-future-review-simpson/feed/ 0 Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Indigenous Sustainability https://issues.org/indigenous-sustainability-food-agriculture/ https://issues.org/indigenous-sustainability-food-agriculture/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:15:41 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43327 In our miniseries Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer, we’re working with Arizona State University’s Global Futures Lab to highlight bold ideas about how to mitigate and adapt to climate… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/indigenous-sustainability-food-agriculture/feed/ 0 Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Refugee Communication Networks https://issues.org/cool-ideas-communication-networks-refugee-rohingya/ https://issues.org/cool-ideas-communication-networks-refugee-rohingya/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43266 In our miniseries Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer, we’re working with Arizona State University’s Global Futures Lab to highlight bold ideas about how to mitigate and adapt to climate… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/cool-ideas-communication-networks-refugee-rohingya/feed/ 0 Cool Ideas for a Long Hot Summer: Solar-Powered Canoes https://issues.org/solar-canoes-amazon-ecuador/ https://issues.org/solar-canoes-amazon-ecuador/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:24:13 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43225 In our new miniseries Cool Ideas for a Long Hot Summer, we’re working with Arizona State University’s Global Futures Lab to highlight bold ideas about how to mitigate and adapt to… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/solar-canoes-amazon-ecuador/feed/ 0 Cool Ideas for a Long Hot Summer: Environmental Justice https://issues.org/environmental-justice-salton-sea/ https://issues.org/environmental-justice-salton-sea/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43159 This has been a record-breaking summer all over the world. Many cities have recorded their hottest days ever, and June 2024 was Earth’s hottest month on record. Mitigating and adapting to the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/environmental-justice-salton-sea/feed/ 0 Reform Federal Policies to Enable Native American Regenerative Agriculture https://issues.org/native-regenerative-climate-smart-agriculture/ https://issues.org/native-regenerative-climate-smart-agriculture/#respond Mon, 20 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41975 Over the last five years, the number of bison on the Great Plains has increased significantly. Today, more than 20,000 bison roam the ancestral homelands of 82 tribes in the United States.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/native-regenerative-climate-smart-agriculture/feed/ 0 A Fond Farewell to the Anthropocene https://issues.org/farewell-anthropocene-ghosh/ https://issues.org/farewell-anthropocene-ghosh/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41994 In February 2024, an international scientific committee voted against creating a new geologic time period called the Anthropocene. The move, coming after two decades of debate, dashed the hopes of many in… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/farewell-anthropocene-ghosh/feed/ 0 Building Community in the Bayou  https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/ https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:46:59 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41557 At the age of 19, Monique Verdin picked up a camera and began documenting the lives of her relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that she would spend the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/feed/ 0 In the Heart of the Yakni Chitto https://issues.org/monique-verdin-art-yakni-chitto/ https://issues.org/monique-verdin-art-yakni-chitto/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:57:10 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41389 Monique Verdin began documenting the lives of her relatives in the Mississippi delta in 1998, when she was 19. That year, her grandmother Armantine Marie Billiot Verdin and other Houma elders traveled… Read More

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