Archive: Biodiversity
20 Articles
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Max Scheiner
- Spring 2024
The Mega Impact of Microplastics: the Reality of the “Great” Pacific Garbage Patch
Georgetown student, Max Scheiner breaks down the true implications of the Pacific Garbage. …
April 17, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Climate & Energy
- Oswaldo Villena
- Spring 2024
The Impact of Global Warming on Human and Avian Malaria
Georgetown postdoctoral researcher examines the impacts of climate change on. …
April 1, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Brian M. Griffiths
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Food, Culture, and Conservation in Maijuna Lands
A creative nonfiction piece by Assistant Professor Griffiths on his research with Peruvian Indigenous.…
March 15, 2024
- Adam Shaham
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Challenges in Mangrove Restoration: Does it Work?
Georgetown alumni Adam Shaham explains his Fulbright research on mangrove.…
March 11, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Madhura Shembekar
- Summer 2023
Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversy–and Conversation–Since 2018
Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate.…
September 21, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Maya Snyder
- Spring 2023
Invasive Insects: Examining the Spread of The Cabbage White Butterfly
Researchers at Georgetown University are using cutting-edge mathematical models to map species evolution in a changing. …
June 20, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Elizabeth Hogan
- Food & Water
- Interviews
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Life on the Seas: Navigating a Career in Marine Conservation
Maya Snyder (SFS '24) sits down with conservation scientist Elizabeth Hogan (SFS '97) to talk about the some of biggest problems plaguing marine wildlife, the most encouraging…
May 4, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Rebecca Helm
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Ecosystems Afloat
Far out to sea, floating ecosystems are developing on dead trees, debris, and even plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Georgetown professor and Earth Commons Faculty…
May 3, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Peter Marra
- Spring 2023
To conserve biodiversity, we must stop chasing ghosts and start making plans
In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now…
March 29, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Climate & Energy
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Olivia Ainbinder
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
A Win for the Environment
What are the environmental impacts of Brazil's recent presidential election? Olivia Ainbinder shares her perspective on President Lula's win and what it means for the country's…
February 17, 2023