L’envoyée spéciale pour le changement climatique de l’ONU et ancienne présidente de l’Irlande répond aux questions de six experts de The Conversation sur les négociations en cours à la COP21.
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UN special envoy and former Irish president Mary Robinson talks to leading experts about the 2015 Paris climate negotiations.
A world of warmer weather may be bad news for reproductive health and birth rates.
Women in countries with better access to policies like paid leave and subsidized child care are more likely to start a business oriented toward growth and job creation.
Two politicians known to oppose action on climate change – Canada’s Stephen Harper and Australia’s Tony Abbott – have been displaced. What does this say about climate as a voter issue?
El Niño constitue la fluctuation la plus importante du système climatique, perturbant la circulation de l’atmosphère à l’échelle globale.
The combination of local fishing rights with adjacent marine reserves creates incentives to avoid overfishing and could improve nearshore, small-scale fisheries around the world.
El Niño explained: how it works, what a mega El Niño this year could bring and how global warming might affect future El Niño-driven weather patterns.
The Endangered Species Act may stave off extinction for the Delta smelt in California, but will it help this threatened fish – or any other at-risk species – recover and thrive again?
In the face of war, disease and outside cultural pressures, the Chitimacha language has survived – and now thrives.
Spreading fishing pressure evenly across whole marine ecosystems sounds like a great idea. But there’s a hitch – we can’t technologically do it, and even if we could, it would be expensive.
Urban wildlife is here to stay. Cities and their residents need better policies to coexist with the many animals making their homes in cities and suburbs.
The same persistent weather pattern bringing hot, dry conditions to California is likely connected to a punishing drought in the Sao Paulo area in Brazil.
What explains the unusually dry and warm weather that’s behind California’s prolonged drought? And how is climate change contributing?
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists are researching how much oil dropped to sea floor, hitchhiking via ‘marine snow.’
STEM disciplines have come to rely heavily on international students, raising questions about the direction of US immigration policy. Should international STEM graduates be encouraged to stay?
Levels of a male sex hormone known to influence aggression and a “love” hormone that promotes bonding both rise in traditional hunters headed home after the kill. What’s going on?
New research shows women entrepreneurs face an unconscious cognitive bias that they don’t have the skills and traits necessary to run successful startups.
A drought in Syria that was exacerbated by climate change helped fuel the unrest that led to the country’s civil war.
The latter part of the twentieth century saw a dramatic increase in women’s participation in the workforce as well as a rise in ideological support for women’s employment in the United States. However…
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Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Chair and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Research Professor, Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Distinguished Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliate Faculty in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Continuing Lecturer in Writing, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Water Resources, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
