environment
environmental racism
By Isabel Carden
Around the world, marginalized communities are constantly facing the environmental injustices inflicted on them in both practice and policy. This issue, known as environmental racism, continues to aggravate racial prejudices and biases and is exacerbated by the ongoing climate crisis.
Fall colors are more than an aesthetic
By Edie Fisher and Nupur Malhotra
Fall colors are a striking must-see along the east coast, but the window to view this colorful spectacle is getting later and later every year. Climate change causes shifts in weather, animal life cycles, food chains, and even things as simple as the autumn leaves outside your window. But, this simple change in orange and red colors has drastic effects on nature’s balance.
Protecting the antarctic ocean
By Danielle Sung
Climate change has been an ongoing issue for decades, and recently the effect it has on the oceans has been growing significantly. Through overfishing and constant drilling of the ocean floor, the nutrient-rich Antarctic Ocean that helps ecosystems thrive and supply food that helps sustain three billion people is at risk, and scientists have been attempting to create a solution to the ongoing issue for many years. But the real question lies here: Are we already too late to return the Antarctic to the way it was decades ago?
