So, she and a group of her colleagues developed a new course, called Climate Resilience, which they offered for the first time at several UC campuses last spring. The goal is to turn students’ distress about the climate into collective action. Alexander signed up for the class and became a teaching assistant. The course offers … Read more
Hellenic Red Cross workers distribute bottles of water to visitors outside the Acropolis in Athens on July 13, 2023, as Greece hits high temperatures. — AFP PARIS: As countries across the world reel from the disastrous effects of climate change, European Union’s climate monitor Copernicus has revealed concerning details about the temperature record of September … Read more
In their first presidential debate for the 2024 US election on Tuesday, Republican Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris clashed on key issues such as abortion, the economy, immigration, and Trump’s legal problems. Both candidates aimed for a pivotal moment in their closely contested race, with each seeking to sway undecided voters in … Read more
by Terry Heick While I often talk about ‘scale’ as one of the primary challenges in education–and have also wondered about curriculum, too–a more subversive concept constantly at play throughout education is tone. As an ‘English’ teacher, I always explained tone to students as a kind of ‘attitude’ that can be expressed in a variety of … Read more
This conversation is part of a larger lesson about developing technologies that reduce planet-heating pollution. The lesson was created by Kravitz, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Indiana University; his colleague Paul Goddard; and Kirstin Milks, DeWayne Murphy’s science teacher at Bloomington High School South in Bloomington, Ind. With heat waves and … Read more
This article is part of the US-China Dynamics series, edited by Muqtedar Khan, Jiwon Nam and Amara Galileo. In August 2021, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres declared a “code red” for humanity in the face of human induced climate change (UN News Global perspective Human stories, 2021). Considering how many countries are affected by … Read more