Climate Corner: The dirty (debt ceiling) deal
Jun 10, 2023 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Climate activists across the country, and especially in West Virginia, have been working hard to keep the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) a pipe dream. Critics oppose it for potential environmental concerns while… Read More
Climate Corner: Climate CRISIS
Mar 25, 2023 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program. Its objective is to provide governments at all levels with… Read More
Climate Corner: All in this greenhouse together
Jan 7, 2023 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Although the basic physics of climate change have been known for more than a century, it remained out of the public’s attention for decades. In the 1980s, media outlets began bringing scientists’… Read More
Climate Corner: Plug in, Mid-Ohio Valley
Oct 1, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com The Environmental Protection Agency reports that the transportation sector is the #1 source of carbon pollution in the United States. At 29% in 2021, transportation now generates the largest share of greenhouse… Read More
Climate Corner: Water Protectors update
Aug 20, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Last summer, more than a thousand people participated in the Treaty People Gathering (TPG), a protest against the Line 3 pipeline being constructed by Enbridge, a Canadian energy transportation company. This pipeline… Read More
Climate Corner: An eco-friendly Fourth of July
Jul 2, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com With picnics, parades and fireworks, July Fourth celebrations are often a highlight of the summer. But these celebrations and the activities associated with them can be less than ideal for the planet…. Read More
Climate Corner: Earth Day should be every day
May 14, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com One of the first pictures taken of the Earth from the Moon was snapped by astronaut William Anders on Christmas Eve 1968. Anders, as well as astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman,… Read More
Climate Corner: Youth vs. government
Apr 16, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Across the globe, youth are dissatisfied with their governments’ responses to the climate crisis. Recently, Lancet Planet Health published a report about the first large-scale investigation of climate anxiety in young people… Read More
Climate Corner: Choose to refuse
Mar 26, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Before the creation of plastics the world was totally dependent on nature for the materials needed to produce everyday items. Because these other materials; such as metals, stones, bones, horns, fangs and… Read More
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Climate Corner: Weather on steroids
Aug 26, 2023 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com The jet stream is a river of wind that blows from West to East, high up in the atmosphere where jets fly. It is the boundary between the cold air of the… Read More