What Happened To Nuclear Power?
Modern society runs on electricity. It lights our cities, runs our factories, and powers the computer that I’m typing this
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Journalism As Activism: A Talk With Photojournalist Marcio Pimenta
On Feb. 19 and 20, Marcio Pimenta, an internationally-recognized freelance photographer and journalist, held a student talk and public lecture
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President’s Sustainability Research Fellows Tackle Campus Climate Engagement
For nearly nineteen weeks now, Atticus Maloney ’22 and Declan Murphy ’21 have dwelled on the dilemma of connecting students
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To Progress
I am scared. We are at the nexus of an immovable moment in our modern history. What we know to
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Art in the Era of Climate Catastrophe
The winter has been eerily mild. While the January temperatures reaching into the sixties have been a welcome break from
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The Point of Protesting
“Make Earth Great Again” painted on canvas, held by a man in his 40s. Teachers clutching permission slips next to
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Heating up Discussions on the Climate Crisis
Recently the campus has seen a wave of climate crisis action, from the Sunrise strike outside Parish Hall to the
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Calling for a Better Commitment to Climate Action
Last Friday, over a hundred Swarthmore students skipped class to participate in the Global Climate Strike, a protest that drew
Read morePhi Beta Kappa Speaker Encourages Optimism in Climate Discussion
Last Thursday, Richard B. Alley, a professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, came to Swarthmore to provide a more
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Rethinking the Way We Talk About Climate Change
In my Introduction to Environmental Studies class, one of our first projects was about climate communication. In order to be
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