This Youth Movement is more than a moment

Medium Since September 20, more than 6 million people have marched worldwide as part of the Global Climate Strikes, spurred on by a youth movement laser focused on making climate

How to preserve commodities in the face of climate change

Global outrage over the fires in the Amazon has once again generated a debate about how to take care of our environment. In analyzing the causes of the fires, experts point

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P&G We Empower company profile by Julia Brownell

P&G is a long-time global advocate of women empowerment and gender parity through various impact programs. The company has spent more than $1.1 billion with women-owned businesses globally.  P&G helps

Conservation Solutions Laboratory scientists pen new commentary

Michael Brown, Samantha Cheng and Jim Tolisano, along with dozens of conservation and development researchers and practitioners representing ASU's Conservation Solutions Lab, have penned a new opinion piece, released September

Funding saves biodiversity

ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber recently coauthored a letter on Science titled “Solve the biodiversity crisis with funding.” In the letter, Gerber and a team of

ASU and Tempe collaborate to organize Heat Walk

On September 21, Arizona State University and the City of Tempe conducted Tempe’s first Heat Walk: a community event orchestrated to help city officials and ASU researchers understand how residents

Leah Lizarondo

Food for thought

Leah Lizarondo knows the farm-to-table connection is broken. Too many people are food insecure, and yet too many organizations lack the logistical know how and manpower to rescue unsellable, but

Project Cities-Glendale partnership begins its second year with new projects

The Project Cities-Glendale partnership is now entering its the second year, collaborating with Arizona State University students and faculty on contemporary sustainability challenges in the community. Over the last year,

Exploring the effectiveness of Blue Water MPAs

ASU-Conservation International Professor of Practice Jack Kittinger, along with a team of experts from The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International and California Environmental Associates have built a research agenda on Blue

Christelle Kwizera

Creating time out of thin... water

Time is precious — the absence of it and the way we spend it affects our families and our communities. Around the world, millions are spending their precious time walking

Microplastics in our food

Beth Polidoro, ASU New College professor and Center for Biodiversity Outcomes associate director of biodiversity valuation and assessments, was featured in an ASU Now article about her ambition to mitigate

ASU researchers mapping coral reefs

People are killing coral reefs. These reefs — some worth $1 million per square kilometer per year — are being destroyed by overdevelopment of coastlines, improper disposal of sewage, overfishing,