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Thank you for your interest in Consilience’s latest venture: revamping our Briefings section. We, the directors of this section, would like to provide a brief explanation of

Even as the federal government repeals regulations and subsidies aimed at improving energy efficiency and developing sustainable infrastructure, many cities in the U.S. are accelerating

People like to take their science straight, without any sense of the social, historical, or cultural. We treat science like a sterile lab or protected

It was my first year as a Biology undergraduate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I was twenty years old, excited to begin my life

The Paris Climate Agreement was crafted following the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2015. It arguably represents the most rigorous and ambitious international

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was

Charleston, South Carolina is drowning. In 2015, climate change seeped into my childhood home, into my living room, into my kitchen. The 1,000-year Charleston flood

For many Americans, popular politics seems to have acquired an Orwellian air in the past weeks. Between the series of mutations that rapidly depleted the

We, the Editorial Board of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, stand behind Columbia Divest for Climate Justice in their demand for fossil fuel divestment.

In 2014, the urban population was 54% of the global population. In 1960, it was just 34%. This urban population is continuing to grow at