Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Environmental Documentary Series: Tonight: Waters of the U.S., From Standing Rock to the Swamp, and The Forever Chemicals

9th Environmental Documentary Series Winter Semester 2020.
Tonight: Waters of the U.S.,
From Standing Rock to the Swamp, and The Forever Chemicals
Info on URLs below
All films start Wednesdays 7:00 PM in the Science Building, Room SCI 131 and are free and open for everybody. This faculty-led program and any related discussion is for educational benefit only.

Week
Date
Film
Runtime
Topic
2
15-Jan
21+24+27
Water pollution, environmental law, activism
http://sustainability.sienaheights.edu/environmental-docume…

AG - Michigan Files Lawsuit Against 3M, DuPont and others for PFAS Contamination

AG - Michigan Files Lawsuit Against 3M, DuPont and others for PFAS Contamination

Monday, January 13, 2020

Joaquin Phoenix Urges Celebrities to Forgo Private Jets in Golden Globe Speech

Well done Joaquin!

Actor Joaquin Phoenix called on the audience at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday to make personal changes to their own lives to send a message that they’re serious about climate change.
“Hopefully we can be united and make some changes,” he said during his acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama. “It’s great to vote but sometimes we have to take that responsibility on ourselves and make sacrifices changes in our own lives and I hope we can do that.

Read more at: Joaquin Phoenix Urges Celebrities to Forgo Private Jets in Golden Globe Speech

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Tipping Point Identified for Deforestation That Leads to Rapid Forest Loss

Global satellite imagery shows transitions occur quickly after blocks of forest are cut in half.

University of Cincinnati geography researchers have identified a tipping point for deforestation that leads to rapid forest loss.
Geography professor Tomasz Stepinski used high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency to study landscapes in 9-kilometer-wide blocks across every inch of the planet between 1992 and 2015. He found that deforestation occurs comparatively slowly in these blocks until about half of the forest is gone. Then the remaining forest disappears very quickly.
Deforestation
The study was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Continue reading at: Tipping Point Identified for Deforestation That Leads to Rapid Forest Loss