Director of the Center for Health and the Environment, Kent Pinkerton, is featured in this piece for Planet Forward about farmworker safety in the midst of smoke, heat, and COVID-19.
Work being done at our Working Lands Innovation Center (WLIC) is highlighted in this article about rock dust studies and their potential impact for climate change mitigation and agriculture.
2020 John Muir Faculty Fellow Helene Margolis comments on the recent heatwave and how it negatively impacts human health especially during the current coronavirus pandemic.
2020 John Muir Faculty Fellow Helene Margolis is featured in this Scientific American article from earlier this year. In it, she discusses the intersection between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic as the two present many overlapping risks.
2020 John Muir Faculty Fellow Helen Margolis' discusses how the warming climate exacerbates risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in a recent PBS interview.
Director Ben Houlton's article in The Conversation details the ways in which we can utilize carbon farming—a component of the One Climate initiative—to slow global warming and increase food security.
Director Ben Houton weighs in on the coronavirus shutdowns, explaining that despite all the reductions in carbon emissions, they may not be enough to significantly slow global warming.
Read Director Ben Houtlton's take on how we can slow global warming through carbon farming, which is a way for farmers to store carbon in their soil with real benefits for both our food supply and also our climate.
Director Ben Houlton is featured on NBC discussing the future of climate change activism—in particular Greta Thunberg and the powerful "Fridays for Future" movement she has started.