Archive: Biodiversity
16 Articles
- 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
- Biodiversity
- Fall 2022
- Maya Snyder
- Sustainability
Hungry Worms and High-Tech Jaguars
In the face of growing climate change impacts, it's becoming increasingly important for communities to balance environmental and social needs. Six organizations across the globe…
October 2, 2022
- Arts & Culture
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Justice
- Series
Earth Day with Earth Commons
Voices on the Environment Series: Intergenerational Justice Voices on the Environment is a multi-year event series at the intersection of science, the humanities and the arts…
August 25, 2022
- Biodiversity
- Hope Babcock
- Interviews
- Sadie Morris
Does Nature Have Rights?
An interview with Professor Hope Babcock of Georgetown Law and the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown on the Rights of Nature legal movement with an introduction…
June 8, 2022
- Biodiversity
- Maya Snyder
- Spring 2022
A Flutter of Memory
Common Home editor Maya Snyder explores Georgetown professor, Dr. Weiss' research on the relationship between caterpillars and cicadas in the. …
April 1, 2022