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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

An exploration of chronic pain and climate change.

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

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...

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

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