Newsletter Photo by Chirag Tripathi on Unsplash Is your university profiting from climate change? Climate change initiatives by universities sometimes mask their financial ties to Big Oil. Students are demanding change.
Top Story Photo by Nicholas Ceglia on Unsplash Big oil on campus: How US universities are ‘colonized’ by the fossil fuel industry Students at Princeton describe unease that Exxon employee had an office on campus, while dozens of universities have big oil links.
Politics www.nytimes.com Behavioral contagion could spread the benefits of a carbon tax It’s not too late to fight climate change with a long-overdue policy that would have surprisingly broad impact, an economist says.
Politics www.nationalgeographic.com Freeman Dyson, legendary theoretical physicist, dies at 96 Dyson helped create modern particle physics, criticized nuclear weapons tests, and imagined how civilizations could take to the stars.
Politics www.greenwichtime.com America's relationship with scientists? It's complicated. A new survey adds to mounting evidence that trust in scientists is rising overall in the United States but that there are differences between Republicans and Democrats, and between races.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities
