Arizona v. Navajo Nation: A Crucial Legal Battle Amidst the Southwest’s Drought Crisis On March 20, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Arizona v. Navajo Nation, wherein the Navajo Nation alleged that the United States government breached its…

Solutions Abound in the Latest IPCC Report The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report in March 2023, warning that the world would surpass its goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures by the…

Willow Snatched the Spotlight from a Massive Climate Win In March 2023, the United States blocked all future oil and gas exploration in the Arctic Ocean, as well as leases on more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve in…

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Over 100,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals were dumped in the community, contaminating drinking water, soil, and storm drains, as well as killing more…

In the early morning of February 6, 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit just east of Nurdagi, Turkey, followed by over 125 aftershocks. The earthquake led to over 5,700 building collapses in Turkey, more than 75,000 injuries, and more than…

Source: Frédéric Paulussen via Unsplash By Hallie Cordingley Engineering drawbacks have kept nuclear fusion from reaching market scales like other clean energy sources, but innovators all over the world continue to show up for the challenge.  Nuclear fusion reactions have…

In December of 2022, the National Ignition Facility announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology: for the first time, a nuclear fusion reaction created a net gain of energy. The process produces no greenhouse gas emissions, so it does not…

The United States saw a slew of extreme weather during the winter of 2022, including a storm around Christmas time, and extreme rains and flooding in California in January of 2023. Why did these storms happen, and what role did…

Source: PxHere By Owen Reith Over Christmas time in 2022, Americans saw a bomb cyclone dubbed ‘Winter Storm Elliot’ rip over the majority of the United States, missing only the southwest. This storm was particularly nasty, lasting from December 21 to…

Source: UN Biodiversity By Olivia Amitay  In December 2022, the U.N. Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, convened governments from across the world to set ambitious 2030 and 2050 conservation goals aimed at addressing the dangerous loss of biodiversity and restoring natural ecosystems.…

World leaders gathered in Montreal for the fifteenth UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, in December 2022. Representatives from around the globe were working toward a global treaty to help stave off mass extinctions, mitigate climate change, and conserve important natural…

Source: Mídia NINJA via Flickr By Melina Nguyen For the first time, global leaders agreed to establish a “loss and damage” fund, paid for by wealthy countries, to support low-income countries in the Global South that have fallen victim to…