Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before A new study suggests a section of glaciers in Antarctica is melting faster than expected. By SETH BORENSTEIN http://www.rocketminer.com/news/antarctica-s-ice-sheet-is-melting-times-faster-than-before/article_6768d649-ccfe-5337-8fb6-178def7081b2.html WASHINGTON — The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an…
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The Guardian Reports China’s Green Shift Progress
China’s Green Shift is Positioning it to Overtake US in Energy Technology, Security “The Guardian reports that air pollution in 62 Chinese cities fell by 30% between 2013 and 2016, according to the World Health Organization. Beijing, the capital, fell from a…
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2018 EcoCinema Cafe Marathon Film Festival
Join us at the 2018 EcoCinema Cafe Marathon Film Festival 5th Annual EcoCinema Cafe Film Festival Website John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 524 W. 59th St, NY, NY 10019 Tues, April 24 through Thurs, April 26, 2018 Daytime films are…
Posted in Announcements, Events, In the News Tagged with: Activism, Climate Change, environmental, Environmental Justice, Events, Exhibit, Festival, Film, Solutions, Sustainability, Wildlife
Climate Teach-in
Tuesday March 28, 2017 1:40 pm, Haaren Hall Room 630 EVIDENCE AND IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Dr. Pushker Kharecha Climate Scientist, Columbia Earth Institute LEGAL OPTIONS FOR FIGHTING BACK Kimberly Ong Esq. Environmental Lawyer NRDC: National Resources Defense Council LOCAL…
Massachussetts D.A. drops charges against two climate activists, citing the threat of climate change
On Monday, Bristol County, MA, District Attorney Sam Sutter surprised climate activists when he dropped criminal charges against Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara, who had blocked a daily shipment of 40,000 toms of coal to the Brayton Point power plant…
Posted in Announcements, In the News, Uncategorized Tagged with: Activism, Blockade, Climate Change, coal, Environmental Justice, Environmental Law, Fossil Fuels, Massachussetts, United States
Destruction creations: Powerful portraits of pollution
What an amazing world we live in– even when we’re destroying it. Photographer Alex MacLean recently traveled to the Alberta oil sands to document the simultaneously beautiful and disturbing realities of Canada’s economic engine. The oil sands are being exploited in the…
Posted in Announcements, In the News, Uncategorized Tagged with: Alberta, Canada, Fossil Fuels, Oil Sands, Photography, Tar Sands
Upriver beauty
Political Science Professor, SEJ faculty member, and nature photographer Jennifer Rutledge captures the Hudson River at low tide, a few dozen miles upriver from NYC. City dwellers know the Hudson from boardwalks and bridges; further upriver the Hudson has gentles banks…
Posted in In the News, Uncategorized Tagged with: Art, Birds, Hudson River, New York State, Photography, Rivers, United States
U.N. draft report of risks of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions
The New York Times recently published the conclusions of a leaked U.N. draft report on the effects of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions, which finds that they are already threatening to be more of a global crisis than the political process can solve alone.…
Posted in In the News, Uncategorized Tagged with: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Greenland Ice Sheet, International, Polar Melt, United Nations
BP found “grossly negligent” in 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout
In a milestone for environmental law, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Babier found BP the primary culprit in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history, judging BPs conduct “reckless” and grossly negligent. The U.S. attorney…
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Recycled art using materials from Beijing building sites on display in NYC
The beauty of reusable materials is on full display in a public exhibit of two majestically crafted birds hanging from the ceiling at St. John the Divine cathedral in upper Manhattan (1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street). Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing…
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