When your home suddenly becomes too hot to live in, your only options are to move or die. Sounds dramatic, but that’s the situation facing many fish species as ocean temperatures rise in response to climate change. The uneven rate of ocean warming around the world, however, means that there …
The United Nations (UN) is a leading organization addressing complex and interdisciplinary issues on a global scale. My key areas of interests focused on by the UN are conflict, disaster response, environmental security, peacekeeping, and cooperation. During my internship experience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, …
This January, Bard CEP students visited the state of Oaxaca, Mexico to study watershed management and sustainable development. While traveling to the Pacific coast, we met with Omar Gabriel Gordillo Solís, a Director at the National Commission on Protected Natural Areas (CONANP). Omar told us about the history and …
It’s been two weeks since I returned from the Bard CEP field course on watershed management in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the trip feels surreal now. Surrounded by snow andpreoccupied by schoolwork, sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about the beautiful Sierra Sur mountains, my favorite place from our journey. We spent …
When the Tesla Model 3 was released and started accepting pre-orders on April 1st, people in the US and Europe went crazy. Three weeks later, there were more than 400,000 pre-orders, according to the official statistics. There are many benefits of driving electric vehicles (EV) such as Tesla: Do not require …
By the fourth day of my one-week trip to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, I was coughing every few minutes. The soot and chemicals that float through the air of one of the world’s most air quality-compromised cities are inescapable for residents. Smog-producing emissions are one result of …
By Eban Goodstein Much of the focus in the Paris climate talks has been on a process supporting deeper cuts in global warming pollution. Should the nations of the earth come back in five years with a new set of proposed reductions? The commitments now on the table have taken …
By Eban Goodstein In the three years leading to the ongoing Paris climate negotiations, the world has witnessed a truly big pivot. Back in 2012, business as usual global warming pollution was set to heat the world up 8 degrees F by century’s end. Neither of the two biggest polluters, …
At this moment word leaders, diplomats and politicians from everywhere on the earth are meeting in Paris to discuss the planet’s fate at the 21st Conference of the Parties. But this time, however, the citizens of this planet are watching, participating, and actively shaping the atmosphere of the negotiations. It …
A chunk of the atmosphere, fresh off the Atlantic Ocean, hit the south side of Long Island and squeezed itself into the Upper New York Bay. After careening around curve of Bay Ridge Brooklyn it whipped passed the Statue of Liberty and made its way uptown by way of the …
