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Bendix talks to LA Times about CA wildfires, fireworks threat

July 8, 2021

Jacob Bendix, professor of geography and the environment, specializes in the study of wildfire distribution.

Sultana explains why climate, COVID crises need feminism in The Hill

May 18, 2021

Instead of analyzing the climate change and COVID-19 crises separately, Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, suggests we learn more by looking at how they intersect.

See related: Climate Change, COVID-19, United States

Van Slyke talks to Capital Tonight about fighting climate change

May 10, 2021

Popp Discusses Biden's Infrastructure Plan, Cutting Emissions in Grist

May 6, 2021

Ethan Coffel awarded three-year NSF grant to study climate-crop cycle

April 22, 2021

Coffel, professor of geography and the environment, hopes to use crop-climate cycles as a way to assess the future risk of climate-driven food insecurity.

See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, Grant Awards

Reeher Discusses Biden's Infrastructure Plan in National Interest

April 5, 2021

Professor Grant Reeher is included in the National Interest article, "Joe Biden to Unveil Infrastructure Package Tomorrow. What Will it Include?"

Popp weighs in on Biden's green stimulus spending in NY Times, Guardian

March 31, 2021

"Unless they can pair it with a policy that forces people to reduce emissions, a big spending bill doesn’t have a big impact," says David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs. But, he adds, "spending money is politically easier than passing policies to cut emissions."

Sultana reviews Global Gobeshona Conference in Dhaka Tribune

March 9, 2021

"Given that climate change impacts the most vulnerable across the world, yet the voices of the vulnerable are always not heard or heeded sufficiently in high-level planning and decision-making, conferences like the Global Gobeshona Conference enhance opportunities to have different voices and positionalities to be present in spaces of global knowledge sharing," writes Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.

See related: Climate Change, India

Coffel discusses his thermal power and climate research in Ecological Society of America journal

March 4, 2021

Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment, discusses his recent study on thermal power and climate change in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a journal of the Ecological Society of America.

Popp weighs in on Biden's climate directives in New York Times

January 28, 2021

David Popp, Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy and co-author of a 2020 paper on the employment effects of the Obama-era spending on green job creation, discounted the notion of creating one million new auto manufacturing jobs.

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