Activism & Justice | Climate Review

Jun 710 min read

Carbon’s Lifeless Cycle: A Geologic View of Climate Stability And Change

BY BOOPALAKRISHNAN ARUL Karstic limestone in the Spanish site of El Torcal de Antequera. The rock in this high outcropping was formed on...

Apr 2414 min read

The Study of Environmental and Climate Movements at UC Merced

Professor Paul Almeida (left) and Luis Rubén González (right). In this interview, we talk to Professor Paul Almeida and Ph.D. candidate...

Mar 117 min read

Climate Change and Human Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems

BY ELLA COULSON Image source: gorsh13/Getty Images A coastal ecosystem is a habitat on the border of land and sea that serves as a home...

Mar 46 min read

Gaia Vignettes

BY KIDA BRADLEY Dying Womb Trigger warning for terminology relating to sexual assault and abuse. Earth Mother carried us. Gaia carried...

Feb 2613 min read

NO CLIMATE JUSTICE WITHOUT JUSTICE IN PALESTINE

BY ALLISON GABLE Author’s note: This article criticizes the state of Israel and the political project of Zionism, neither of which are...

Feb 184 min read

America’s Climate Bills and Progress Towards Carbon Neutrality

BY DEVON BRADLEY Image Source: Wix Colossal wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, devastating hurricanes in the South, and unprecedented...

Feb 115 min read

How to kick out SDG&E and encourage rooftop solar in San Diego

BY LEORAH GAVIDOR (Hint: sign the petition for ballot measure) A version of this story appeared in San Diego Reader UCSD professor and...

Jan 146 min read

Sustainable Consumption: Halloween Costumes

BY KIDA BRADLEY All images made and produced by Kida Bradley. In the spring and summer months, we confront the lifestyles we have...

Oct 26, 20234 min read

Break It Down: How Plastic Production Impacts Climate Change [Non-Fiction 1st Place]

Emma Simon - 1st place Non-Fiction UCLA - Environmental Science major BREAK IT DOWN: HOW PLASTIC PRODUCTION IMPACTS CLIMATE CHANGE Since...

Oct 26, 20237 min read

Policing in the Age of Climate Change [Non-Fiction 2nd Place]

Allison Gable - 2nd place UCSD - Urban Studies and Planning In the past few years, there have been massive movements in the U.S. to...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

The Sustainable Cookbook [Non-Fiction 3rd Place]

Phoebe Skok, Conner Hines, Zongze Chen, and Ying Niu - 3rd place Non-Fiction UCSD - Phoebe: Master's in climate science and policy;...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

Pollution [Art Honorable Mention]

Katelyn Ramirez - Honorable Mention in Art UCSD - Psychology major “Pollution” Inspired by a recent event at UCSD, my piece reflects the...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

Coral [Art 3rd Place]

Michelle Tang - 3rd place “Coral” In my artwork, I wanted to represent coral as the “tree of life,” symbolizing how coral is an integral...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

LEAVE ME ALONE. XOXO, OIL [Art 2nd Place]

Joyce Pang - 2nd place in Art UCSD - Urban Studies and Planning major (double minor in Speculative Design and Sociocultural Anthropology)...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

The Future is Fluid [Art 1st Place]

Kyra Black - 1st place in Art UCSD - Marine Biology major "The Future is Fluid" “The Future is Fluid” is a college that combines my...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

Billion Degrees [Poetry Honorable Mention]

Jenna Elaidy - Honorable Mention in Poetry UCSD - International Relations and Public Law “Billion Degrees” [SPOKEN WORD & POEM] This heat...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

Stella Starfish Gets Some Bad News [Poetry 3rd Place]

Sophia Michelson - 3rd place in Poetry UCI - Psychology major (minoring in Global Sustainability) “Stella Starfish Gets Some Bad News”...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

Light pollution [Poetry 2nd Place]

Dhaval Jani - 2nd place in Poetry UCSD - Computer Science major with a minor in Environmental Systems A real story shared by my dad, I...

Oct 26, 20231 min read

Ignorance is Bliss [Poetry 1st Place]

Allison Iannucci - 1st place in Poetry UCSD - Environmental Systems: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution "Ignorance is Bliss" Ignorance is...

May 30, 202311 min read

Despair, Kindness, and Connection: An Interview with Dr. Leslie Lewis

BY ALLISON GABLE Dr. Leslie Lewis is a Continuing Lecturer in the Urban Studies and Planning Department at UC San Diego. She runs several...

May 19, 20234 min read

Oat milk Defaults as Corporate Climate Action

By AVA MCCANDLESS Art by Karolina Grabowska Amidst a climate crisis, the least we can do is stop assuming people take their coffee with...

Apr 27, 20235 min read

I Can't Hear My Brothas and Sistas

By KIDA BRADLEY Art by Kida First, they take our 40 acres, then they poison our underdeveloped and dried-to-hell lands– niggas can’t have...

Apr 8, 20234 min read

Coral Reefs in Crisis: How is climate change impacting ocean acidification and coral bleaching?

By Emma Simon Supporting a quarter of all marine species, coral reefs are some of the most beautiful, diverse, and important ecosystems...

Apr 7, 20238 min read

The Polarization of Climate Change

By Ella Coulson Image Source It is no secret that the issue of climate change has become extremely politicized in recent decades. Climate...

Apr 3, 20234 min read

The Persistence of the Cal Falcons: Surviving Through DDT and Climate Change

By Erin Shaotran Image Source Peregrine falcons are known as one of the fastest birds of prey due to their impressive flying speeds and...

Mar 31, 20237 min read

Policing in the Age of Climate Change

BY ALLISON GABLE Photo by Alec Favale on Unsplash. In the past few years, there have been massive movements in the U.S. to expose the...

Mar 8, 202317 min read

Establishing A Climate-Friendly Tourism System

BY KIDA Art by Kida Introduction The innate human need to seek out adventure, mystery, the wonders of mother nature, and the rich...

Feb 21, 20239 min read

Creating Climate Change Curriculum

BY KIDA BRADLEY Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels. Introduction The unwillingness of the education system to design a curriculum around...

Feb 7, 20238 min read

An Interview with UC San Diego's Sustainability Landscaper

Status-Driven Sustainability and Prospective Environmental Efforts on Campus BY GILLIAN RAMIREZ Artwork by Momei Fang UCSD is well-known...

Jan 23, 20234 min read

Designed for Waste: Planned Obsolescence

BY LINDSEY NGO Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash. Planned obsolescence is a marketing strategy where products are intentionally designed...

Jan 18, 20236 min read

Suburbia Is Destroying Our Climate — And Our Communities

BY EMMA SIMON In current discussions surrounding climate-friendly transportation, a frustrating amount of attention is given to electric...

Jan 9, 20237 min read

Living on Top of the World

By FINN SCHWARTZ After hiking an exhausting 10 miles with over 2000 feet in elevation gain, I finally found myself looking over the basin...

Jan 1, 20237 min read

THE ROCK-DROP:

Harnessing an Indigenous Land Management Technique to Adapt to Climate Change in San Diego BY ETHAN OLSON INTRODUCTION The San Diego of...

Dec 16, 20229 min read

Atmospheric River Data: Key to Saving California’s Agricultural Sector

BY ALEX REEP California’s agricultural sector is reliant on the increasingly unpredictable mega-storms, called atmospheric rivers, that...

Dec 6, 20226 min read

Decolonization as Climate Justice: Deep-Sea Oil Drilling in Aotearoa New Zealand

BY ALLISON GABLE Despite worldwide resistance to fossil fuel extraction, not only are companies and governments failing to shut down...

Dec 3, 20226 min read

Climate Change and Coastal Infrastructure: How Amtrak is proving to be a Case Study for the future

BY ROUX REILLY A little over a month ago, Amtrack’s Pacific Surfliner had to halt all trains traveling from Oceanside to Irvine due to...

Nov 30, 20225 min read

Consumerism: Capitalism’s Climate Changing Child

BY ANTHONY YE In the past thousand years of human civilization, most people owned only a few pieces of clothing, maybe a couple toys, and...

Nov 16, 20224 min read

I Wish This Didn’t Have to Be My Job

A short excerpt about growing up in the Climate Movement BY CHIARA FIELDS Every Monday and Wednesday, I help teach environmental science...

Nov 15, 20225 min read

San Diego Bike Lanes in Car-centric America

BY NICOLE PHELPS In 2018, I saved up and paid for my first car for $1900 off Facebook Marketplace. As a full-time student and part-time...

Nov 2, 20224 min read

50 Years After “The Crying Indian” the Plastic Industry Still Prevails

BY CHIARA FIELDS In 1971, messaging about plastic pollution was turned on its head with the broadcasting of “The Crying Indian”...

Oct 31, 20224 min read

Environmental Radicalism Through Ecotage

Derik Jensen, an American ecophilosopher asserts, “Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency... To hope for...

Oct 28, 20228 min read

BENDING THE TRUTH: Examples of Media Manipulation Against Climate Change

BY LINDSEY NGO 1988 is widely agreed to be the year that scientists began to sound the alarm, agreeing that it was time for the...

Oct 27, 20226 min read

Interview with Alexander Weyant on Climate Models and Defining Causality

BY ELEANOR TERNER image source Alexander Weyant is a first year phD student of climate science at Scripps Institute of Oceanography who,...

Oct 19, 20224 min read

Flames: Three Climate Vignettes

BY DANIEL SJOHOLM 1. The heat was inescapable. "It is hot" was not a temporary statement about the weather, but rather a simple fact of...

Oct 17, 20226 min read

Why the Parks in San Diego Represent Injustice

BY WIL SKAFF Chicano Park is located in one of San Diego’s most established Mexican neighborhoods, Logan Heights, and is situated under...

Oct 12, 20224 min read

I’ll Drink Tea as the World Burns

An exploration of chronic pain and climate change.

Oct 7, 20226 min read

The Climate Change Contradiction

Are the systems responsible for climate change a larger problem than climate change itself? BY ETHAN OLSON

Sep 23, 20224 min read

The Return of the Regents: The Climate Activists Strike Back

BY DANIEL SJOHOLM AND PHOEBE SKOK photos in article from Martin Hawks It was a clear fall morning at UC San Diego and tensions were...

Jun 15, 20224 min read

Is the U.S. Prepared to Protect Climate Refugees?

BY CHIARA FIELDS Through his speech and highly restrictive refugee quotas, President Donald Trump succeeded in cultivating a racist and...

May 17, 20222 min read

We Fixed These Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Change Proclamations

Behind the greenwashed facades and misleading promises that the largest contributors to climate change are pushing lie one stone cold...