by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 27 May 2020 | Environment, Health and Wellness, News Decoder Updates
Want to ensure the impact of COVID-19 on the environment slows climate change? Then be sure to vote, a top environmentalist tells a News Decoder webinar. Tom Burke (upper left) leads webinar on COVID-19 and climate change. By Dylan Carlson-Sirvent What can young...
by Tira Shubart | 22 Apr 2020 | Africa, Environment
Elephants, rhinos, pangolins and lions are under threat from poachers of endangered wildlife. Meet the dogs that sniff out contraband in Africa. (Photo courtesy of Paul Joynson Hick/African Wildlife Foundation) Today — April 22, 2020 — is the 50th anniversary of the...
by Ryan Rothman | 30 Mar 2020 | Chadwick School, Environment, Student Posts, Youth Voices
Plastic pollution hurts humans, animals and the environment. Students from around the world gathered recently to share tactics in tackling the problem. Trash islands, dying marine life, polluted beaches: the effects of plastic in the ocean are not pretty. Teenagers...
by Sue Landau | 27 Mar 2020 | Environment
The coronavirus pandemic is confronting us with sacrifices we may have to make to save our planet from climate disaster — lockdown as a dry run. Maps published by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration using data collected by the European Space Agency...
by Katherine Monahan | 26 Mar 2020 | Environment, Health and Wellness, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
COVID-19 is forcing a global workplace experiment in telecommuting that could have lasting benefits for employers, employees and the environment. A digital marketing manager works from home in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 14 March 2020. (EPA-EFE/Mahmoud KHALED). The...
