BY KATIE BABSON The emerging genre “cli-fi” refers to the science fiction of climate change. It describes a post-apocalyptic world where...

BY KAMILA PERLA Brought to you by the AS Office of Environmental Justice Affairs The movement towards a greener earth has prompted change...

BY ETHAN OLSON Art by Jessica Kamman Imagine a city of the future. Are there flying cars, cities with buildings taller than mountains,...

In 2013, the UC system announced their goal to become carbon-neutral by 2025. Dive deep into the key issues of the Carbon Neutrality Plan.

BY ELEANOR TERNER In this interview, Katy VanDusen, a community-based climate activist located in Monteverde, Costa Rica, answers...

BY BIANCA JUSSEN The first time I ate bugs was at a Oaxacan restaurant in San Jose, California. I ordered Taco de Chapulines- a taco with...

BY KARTHY SAJEEV Are we that close to krill-ing off biodiversity as we know it? Apparently so, because keystone species are feeling the...

BY KATIE BABSON Climate change music evokes a spatial region between geography, activism, and the human imagination. It possesses the...

BY BERNS PIFFARD Workers attempt to stop the spread of oil in the Talbert Marsh on October 4, 2021. Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County...

BY ANTHONY YE Nuclear Energy: for some that word may strike fear, for some it is a confusing and indifferent topic, and yet for many...

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BY PHOEBE SKOK There is a pit looming in the bottom of my stomach. Some days, it grows. Rarely, it shrinks. Still, it is always there: a...

BY CATHY GERE AND ADAM ARON UCLA's cogeneration facility, pictured to the left, runs off of methane gas. Despite plans to achieve what...

An Interview with Organizers from the Green New Deal at UCSD’s Recent Climate Justice and Action Rally BY ETHAN OLSON Blanca Lozano...

BY KATIE BABSON Art by Kyra Black Since elementary school, we are taught that recycling is a core tenant of reducing wasteful plastic....

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BY KIDA BRADLEY When I tell my children about what climate change is, I am not sure how I could thoroughly explain it. Climate change is an

A Conversation with Dr. Nan Renner, Senior Director of Learning Design and Innovation for Birch Aquarium at Scripps BY EMILY ZOU

BY VEER SHAH Veronika Michels is an alumna from UC San Diego and graduated in 2019 with a degree in Physiology and Neuroscience. She joined

BY ETHAN OLSON Over two decades ago, world leaders met in Kyoto, Japan to create an international agreement for mitigating climate

BY OLGA KURILINA AND ELIANA BLACHMAN Professor Fonna Forman is a professor of Political Science and the founding Director of the Center on G

BY EMILY ZOU “These problems can also be so important that they should not be avoided or ignored until the fog lifts. We simply must learn

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BY ELIANA BLACHMAN AND OLGA KURILINA We interviewed UC San Diego’s Professor Chandler Puritty, our former Environmental Studies teacher, to

BY EMILY ZOU This past quarter, I studied under Dr. Andrew deWaard, who led a special studies class in communications. He is writing a book

BY AMBERLY CLARK Carbon neutral! Fossil free! Sustainable! Buzz words like these and many others are constantly thrown around and misused by

BY ANUSHA GOSWAMI Kathryn Walkiewicz, Assistant Professor of English Literature and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, received her Ph.D. in E

BY SOPHIA HIDALGO In this digital age, social media is the driving force in the way individuals perceive the outside world. It’s a bottomles

BY CAROLINE HADLEY For this interview, I spoke to Andy Lamey, a professor, author, and director of the undergraduate philosophy program at

BY AMBERLY CLARK When talking about climate change, phrases like fossil fuels, emission levels and global average temperatures are very pop

BY ETHAN OLSON With buildings accounting for 39% of carbon emissions worldwide, distinguished architects are scrambling to promote their ow

BY ELEANOR TERNER If you’ve ever been curious about nuclear energy, check out this interview with nuclear engineer Dr. Mehdi Sarram. He rec

BY EMILY ZOU In this interview, Pasquale Verdicchio, a literature professor at UC San Diego, answers questions about the synthesis of the f

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BY MARC CAMANAG In a royal effort to address the climate crisis, the Prince of Wales has recently unveiled his Terra Carta, a visionary char

BY ETHAN OLSON The size, complexity, and importance of the fight against climate change is overwhelming. Listening to the Stoics can help.

BY DR. MAGDALENA BUDZISZEWSKA Poland, a Central–Eastern European country, with a population of 38.5 million, is the fifth largest country i

BY SABINA GRIEBEL This article provides both a brief overview of the history of menstrual hygiene products, their effects on climate change

BY ETHAN OLSON Toxic masculinity undergirds many terrible social ills — the radicalization of incels, the recruitment of young men into ter

BY AVANTIKA GOYAL For as long as we can remember, the conventional wisdom surrounding sustainability and capitalism has always been that th

BY MARC CAMANAG Among the world’s liberal democracies, the United States is the stark exception — rather than the rule — when it comes to G

BY ETHAN OLSON In this interview, Nicholas Lutsko, an assistant professor of climate science at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an

BY ANUSHA GOSWAMI A framework of racism is now being confronted and retaught to include all marginalized communities in the conversation of

BY KATIE BABSON This is an article about my experiences having grown up with parents that did not believe in climate change and how I becam