According to Wright, people living in communities of color that are located in heavily industrial areas are subject to higher rates of respiratory or allergic disorders, degraded air quality and increased mortality, when compared to their white counterparts.
Students from kindergarten through university came out in full force on Friday, March 15, as part of a worldwide series of demonstrations protesting against the lack of action against climate change.
As global warming has intensified, it has affected the farming industry. To learn more about the ramifications of global warming in farming, Science Editor Ian Mason spoke to Deb Gangwish, owner of PG Farms, a family-run corn farm in Nebraska.
As children have snowball fights outside, a different type of snowball fight is being waged inside the United States Senate as politicians attempt to assert and dispute whether snow on the ground can disprove global warming's growth.
On that cold, rainy November day, Fuentes expressed optimism about the challenge of climate change, talking about the need to preserve green space in Songdo and her own favorite garden back in her native Mexico.
A recent climate change study conducted by 13 government agencies attributes humans as the sole cause of global warming. This video explains how scientists came to this conclusion and what we can do to reverse the damage caused by our excessive fossil fuel use.
Global warming leads to severe weather conditions and warmer ocean temperatures. This hurts coral reefs, which one billion people depend on for food or income.
As a group, we were inspired by this moving story and decided to put our own spin on it: We wanted to connect with other people about climate change.
We did this by constructing a dome-shaped booth structure out of bamboo and lined the inside with cloth to make it a private space.
Even if you’ve been diligently following the news about the Hurricane Harvey on all the major American networks, you can be forgiven for knowing little, if anything, about rather significant flooding in another part of the world.