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Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. The contiguous ...

HBCU Fellow and Sustainability Management student Reagan Russell shares insights on gaps in sustainability and making a global impact.

EXCLUSIVE: The Sustainable Entertainment Alliance and SXSW Film & TV Festival are launching the Green Lens Award.

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One way the UAE is addressing climate change is by reducing the carbon footprint of its energy system with nuclear power — a strategy that, through cooperation with the IAEA, it is helping to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists are trained to be ...