Podcast Featuring Southerners Who Are Stewards of the Environment

Broken Ground Podcast

The Broken Ground team is dedicated to telling the stories of people from all walks of life. We are looking for the stories of Southerners who are stewards of the environment, truth-tellers, and on the front lines fighting to protect our precious water, air, and land. Do you have a story to tell?

Water: The Weirdest Molecule Known to Humanity

Water: The Weirdest Molecule Known to Humanity.

One of the most essential components to solving the world's water crisis lies in understanding the many complex issues surrounding it. This is a key reason Current has created our

A Model: Storytelling Fueling Climate Conversations and Actions

Storytelling is fueling climate conversations at Appalachian State University " Yale Climate Connections

How do we respond with our full selves to the enormity of the climate crisis? Educator. Ecologist. Mom. All three of these roles - essential threads woven into who I am in the world - drive me to constantly monitor the latest research and news on climate change.

Chatham County Farmer Sees Climate Changing

A North Carolina farmer sees the climate changing

Tandy Jones I have lived and farmed in Chatham County for 36 years and come from a continuous line of farming families. With that background, I've always known that a farmer's livelihood is susceptible to the weather, that's nothing new.

How Will Chatham County's Infrastructure Support Chatham Park?

Curious Chatham: How will our infrastructure support Chatham Park?

By Ari Sen and Adrianne Cleven This week's featured question comes from Ann Herndon, who wonders "How will our infrastructure support Chatham Park?" Good question, Ann, particularly after a recent town meeting suggested sewer lines were quite weak in many spots. Infrastructure can refer to a lot of different systems, including everything from wastewater treatment [...]

Sustained Greenland Ice Sheet-Ocean Observing System

The Case for a Sustained Greenland Ice Sheet-Ocean Observing System (GrIOOS)

Rapid mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet is affecting sea level and, through increased freshwater discharge, ocean circulation, sea-ice, biogeochemistry, and marine ecosystems around Greenland. Key to interpreting ongoing and projecting future ice loss, and its impact on the ocean, is understanding exchanges of heat, freshwater, and nutrients that occur at Greenland's marine margins.

U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in Heat as the Climate Warms

U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in the Heat as Climate Warms

The medics loaded Sgt. Sylvester Cline into an ambulance with the air conditioning running at full blast. It was 4:20 p.m., 20 minutes after he'd been helped off a live-fire training range at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, where the heat index had reached 103.

The Science of Cleaning Water

Membrane Mindfulness

Humans have been filtering liquids for centuries. But as anyone in the water industry knows, the science of clean water is anything but static. New technologies continue to push the boundaries of what membranes can achieve in separating liquids from contaminants. At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)

Oleo Sponge Named a Finalist for the (International) INDEX AWARD

Argonne National Laboratory on LinkedIn: "Oleo Sponge named an Index Project Finalist - http://bit.ly/2JUHYMO"

July 25, 2019: Argonne National Laboratory posted images on LinkedIn

The Index Project, formerly INDEX: Design to Improve Life, is a Danish nonprofit organisation that promotes designs aimed at the improvement of life worldwide, both in developed and developing countries. The organisation is behind the biennial Index Award, the world's biggest design award.

Country Most Vulnerable to Climate Change Fights Back

The Country Most Vulnerable to Climate Change Fights Back

This OZY original series takes you to the New Frontiers of Climate Change, where some of the most vulnerable nations are coming up with the most innovative solutions. Think of movies about climate change, and you likely imagine giant waves sweeping coastal metropolises from New York to Shanghai.