NSCC Environmental Studies Program

10/18/2024

04/28/2024

https://www.acc.gov/

Join the next generation of creators, thinkers, leaders, and doers, working together to tackle the climate crisis. Help build a clean energy and climate-resilient future in your own community and across the nation.

01/23/2024

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1204141095/climate-grief-great-salt-lake-utah-terry-tempest-Jermaine Williams

"Before we can save this world we are losing, we must first learn how to savor what remains. This is more than an ecological crisis or a political crisis — it is a spiritual one."

Experts refer to "climate grief." Terry Tempest Williams explains what this feels like to someone who has spent their life thinking about our psychic and spiritual connection to the natural world.

12/22/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-op-climate&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_opinion_swipe_recirc

Stories of global climate change. . . NY Times.

These 193 stories show the reality of climate change. In every country in the world.

10/18/2023

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-water-data-trade-climate-change/?cmpid=BBD101823_MKT&leadSource=uverify%20wall

More extreme weather is reshaping the availability of water, a commodity embedded in almost every product bought and sold in international markets

12/21/2022

A sweeping review of Medicare records expands on research that shows spending time in nature may reduce the risk of a hospitalization for Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson's. . . . The findings suggest a more extensive link for Parkinson's than for Alzheimer’s but show potential prevention benefits for both.

A sweeping review of Medicare records expands on research that shows spending time in nature may reduce the risk of a first hospitalization for Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson's. The findings suggest a more extensive link for Parkinson's than for Alzheimer’s but show potential prevention ben...

12/02/2022

“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” ― Rachel Carson

How’s to rescue the Earth from us people? Rachel Carson’s way – 60 years ago – was to write a book, and call it Silent Spring. She’d been a shy but defiant biologist in government service. Her book had science behind it, and the rhythm of poetry all through it: one woman’s outcry—as sh...

11/07/2022

https://www.wbur.org/npr/1132796190/faq-whats-at-stake-at-the-cop27-global-climate-negotiations

World leaders are meeting in Egypt for the next two weeks to talk about reining in climate change and paying for its deadly effects. Here's what you need to know.

11/07/2022

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-apocalypse

We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.