Tag: climate change

A brief history of three desert survivors

Post by Rekha Warrier, Post Doctoral Fellow at the School of Global Environmental Sustainability The Sonoran Desert is a land of foreboding beauty straddling the southwestern margins of the United States. It’s a landscape of jagged peaks, cinder cones, valleys,

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Flooded streets in Houston with victims in rafts

Did climate change cause hurricane Harvey?

By Alexandra Naegele, 2017-2018 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science This past summer, Hurricane Harvey rolled into west Texas and stalled, causing disastrous flooding. The National Hurricane Center just released their final report on

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