In 2016, after Carolina’s Sustainability Office worked with stakeholders across campus to research and develop a campus sustainability plan, the University identified three ambitious sustainability goals: net zero water usage, zero waste to landfills and net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Residual sludge from treating waste water has been turned into a money-spinner but what are the costs to health of ‘the most pollutant-rich manmade substance on Earth’? By some estimates, Americans send about 300m pounds of feces daily from the … Read more
Between water and electricity, Colorado’s legal cannabis industry already has a big environmental footprint. But what about Front Range air quality? Could the plant itself be contributing to air pollution?
Moss-covered molehills pepper the landscape, each a different shade of autumn. Some are mustard yellow, others evergreen. Upon closer inspection, petite red buds peep through the growth while spindly, fingerlike plants called lycophytes grow long and tall on the mounds’ … Read more
People of color and low-wealth individuals and families are at the greatest risk of exposure to both natural disasters and technological hazards in our state.
Animals can’t survive without places to breed and feed. The endangered Carolina gopher frog. Monarch butterflies. Sharks. Meet the conservationists trying to give these species a boost using habitat conservation. And learn how bobcats and fox are responding to coyotes—a … Read more
Warming due to climate change is driving shifts in Earth’s hydrological cycle.
BOSTON – A coalition of Eastern states trying to cut carbon emissions from transportation has decided to focus on gasoline and on-road diesel, which together account for over 80 percent of carbon emissions in the region.
BOSTON — The coalition of eastern states developing a program to drive down carbon emissions from transportation has decided to focus on motor gasoline and on-road diesel, two sources of pollution that account for over 80 percent of carbon emissions … Read more
This article is part one of a two-part series addressing domestic and international developments related to carbon pricing and related programs aimed at regulating or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
