Civil engineering is a career that involves creating, improving and protecting the environment in which we live. Civil engineers are tasked with planning, designing and overseeing the maintenance and construction of building facilities and structures like roads, bridges, airports, railways, …
Tag: Climate Change
Validating Claims Re: the Environment
How many times have you wondered about the scientific evidence behind the many competing claims that are made concerning climate change and other environmental issues? Now there is a team of fact-checkers whose job is to debunk claims and present …
Examining the Rate of Ecological Damage
Here’s an article that will upset its reader: Humans Are Damaging the Environment Faster Than It Can Recover. The author takes into account a wide variety of human activities, e.g., increasing consumption, urbanization, and over-population, and then discusses the environmental …
A Quick Inventory of Good and Bad Trends in the U.S.
Where is the U.S. on the two most critical issues facing our civilization? Climate change: Congress rejects the agreements reached among 155 countries in Paris a few months ago, broadcasting to the world that the most powerful nation on Earth has …
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Clean Power Act Under Attack
In the U.S., perhaps the most important legal battle pertaining to environmental sustainability and climate change is the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s efforts in this arena, the Clean Power Act.
Coral Depletion and Regeneration: Villains and Heroes of the Fragile Ocean Ecosystems
I often start my day with the television broadcast “Newsroom Tokyo,” which airs on our local PBS affiliate at 6 AM. Not only is this a wonderful reminder that the United States is not the center of the universe, it’s …
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Climate Change Victims: First Them, Then Us
Here’s a story about a town that has all but vanished due to climate change. Of course, many people, when they see how remote the village is and how foreign its people are to our more “civilized” ways, will discount …
Short Note on Big Oil and Climate Change
This discussion on the culpability of the oil companies in suppressing the truth about climate change is everything I hoped it would be. Check out the comments of Terry and Gina. Holy cats, that’s really brilliant and expressive writing.
Climate Change and Melting Ice
Those keeping track of the slowly unfolding demise of the Antarctic will be interested to know that the Scar Inlet is now predicted to shatter into small icebergs sometime close to the end of March, the end of a long, …
COP 21 Meetings: A Success By Any Reasonable Measure
There are plenty of people and groups disappointed by the outcome of the Paris COP 21 meetings, in particular, those who stand to suffer most immediately and intensely as a result of climate change, or of the abusive processes related …
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