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A graphic with vegetables suitable to consume for those following the vegan diet. J4P4N BY CC0

Veganism: perhaps the better alternative for a healthy body and planet

Sasha Kagan • March 13, 2022
#OPINION: While veganism would certainly decrease carbon emissions and help to halt climate change, it isn’t necessary for everybody to resort to the diet.
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How neocolonialism is killing our planet

How neocolonialism is killing our planet

Benjamin Joffe • April 23, 2021
#OPINION Corporations and governments across the world are pushing the Earth deeper into the global climate crisis, and immediate action must be made to combat this.
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Satellite picture of the Earth. PUBLIC DOMAIN

COVID-19 presents an opportunity to restructure our society around sustainability

Matt Venezia • September 6, 2020
Though we are still causing catastrophic levels of damage to ecosystems by consuming natural resources at an unsustainable rate, the pandemic has managed to slow us down.
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Snow falls on the Academic Mall outside of the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library on Dec. 1. EMMA HARRIS/THE STATESMAN

SBU scientist predicts short winters, heavy storms for Long Island

Niki Nassiri • December 6, 2019
The winter season may become shorter, but storms and floods will hit the East Coast harder than ever due to climate change, Edmund K.M. Chang, a professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, hypothesized in a study on winter storms.
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A bike rack outside of the the Simons Center. ARACELY JIMENEZ/THE STATESMAN

Why we need to bike more around campus

Gabby Pardo • April 18, 2018
Ride a bike — it's a little step that counts toward the big picture.
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Bicycles buried in snow in front of Toscanini College. ERIC SCHMID/STATESMAN FILE

Spring break should fall on a different week

Andrew Goldstein • March 25, 2018
This was the third spring break in a row where there was a snowstorm that elicited an email from Stony Brook Emergency Management. Spring break wasn’t even during spring.
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A satellite image of Hurricane Irma on Sept. 5. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PAGE/FLICKR VIA CC BY 2.0

Keep your eye on the cause of these hurricanes

Andrew Goldstein • September 24, 2017
“During its life cycle a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs!" That is what we are dealing with.
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Keep my gorge gorgeous

Keep my gorge gorgeous

Daniel Brown • April 28, 2016
This is a world dominated by humans, but not everything needs to be shaped to our design.
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President Barack Obama briefs European leaders, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and Danish Prime Minister Lars L. Rasmussen, following a multilateral meeting at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 18, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza))This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

From COP21, the Earth needs action, not words

Taylor Mandelbaum • December 2, 2015
In order for this year’s COP and resulting protocols to be effective, policies must not only maintain a symbolic nature but push forward common-sense strategies.
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Ice cream overlords hiding the truth of global cooling

Skyler Gilbert • November 9, 2015
Folks, we are on the verge of perhaps the greatest environmental catastrophe of our lifetimes: Global cooling.
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Pope Francis, above, will make his New York City debut on Sept. 24. Francis' high popularity Pope Francis, above, will make his New York City debut on Sept. 24 at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He will also lead mass the following night at Madison Square Garden. PHOTO CREDIT: ALETEIA IMAGE DEPARTMENT

A Pope with a paramount personality

Jager Robinson • September 16, 2015
Pope Francis' biggest message seems to be that of total acceptance, regardless of whether or not it conforms to the old Catholic traditions.
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The Long Island Sound, above, may be getting heat pollution from Millstone Nuclear Facility, a Suffolk legislator says. BRIDGET DOWNES / THE STATESMAN

Suffolk County legislator reaches out to SoMAS to save the sound

Kelly Saberi • March 8, 2015
The Long Island Sound is heating up at a rate that is six times anticipated global warming rates.
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