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Welcome to the Take 10 for the Planet landing page! This exciting new initiative is presented by a cooperative effort by the Provost's Office, Office of Sustainability, ND Energy, the Minor in Sustainability, and Faculty, Student, and Staff partners across campus in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. This will be a permanent resource for sustainability teaching, lessons, and personal research. 

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  Article: American Foreign Policy Is Not Ready for Climate Change

  The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.

• Article: Amsterdam to embrace 'doughnut' model to mend post-coronavirus economy

  Out with the global attachment to economic growth and laws of supply and demand, and in with the so-called doughnut model.

• Article: A Prairie Flower That Flourishes With Fire

  Research over two decades on prairie land in western Minnesota shows how controlled burns encouraged a plant to generate seeds.

• Article: Australia's Bushfires Show Drastic Effects of Climate Change

  Scientists say climate change is behind the unprecedented intensity of the bushfires that have burned a reported 27 million acres in Australia.

• Article: Australia's Wildfires Are Releasing Vast Amounts Of Carbon

  The vast amounts of greenhouse gasses released by the Australian wildfires are contributing to climate change.

• Article: Cities Are Making Big Climate Promises. Keeping Them Can Be Tough

  Cities are making promises on climate change resilience and mitigation. How are they planning on keeping those promises?

• Article: Contentious Oregon Climate Plan Takes Lessons From California's Mistakes

  Oregon is on track to become the second U.S. state to pass an economy-wide cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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  Article: It's Hard To Think About Climate Change During A Pandemic. Here's How To Stay Engaged

  Instead of feeling gratitude and oneness with the planet this Earth Day, you may have experienced darker emotions as we weather the pandemic: a fear that more disruptive events are on the horizon due to climate change. What can we do to stay engaged?

• Article: One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study

  Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals

• Article: Pollution and Psychology, The quest for purity begins now.

  How does pollution affect psychological health.

• Article: Refinery Explosions Raise New Warnings About Deadly Chemical

  How are emissions from refineries affecting air quality?

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  Article: Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology

  Police scramble to recall guide issued to teachers putting climate activists alongside far-right groups

• Article: The Political Divide on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in the U.S.

  As the political divide widens, climate change action becomes more difficult.

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  Article: To Prevent Next Coronavirus, Stop the Wildlife Trade, Conservationists Say

  Conservationists see a persistent threat of epidemics so long as tens of millions of animals are traded in Southeast Asia.

• Audio: 2019 Was The 2nd-Hottest Year On Record, According To NASA And NOAA

  2019 was the second hottest year on record. How much more will it warm? Length: 2 min 29 sec

• Audio: 5 U.S. Native Tribes File A UN Climate Change Complaint

  American indigenous tribes are bringing a UN Climate Change Complaint against the United States Government. Length: 4 min 42 sec

• Audio:Alaska's Ice Roads Are Melting Early This Year, With Devastating Consequences

  Transcript In Bethel, Alaska, record warm temperatures mean a frozen river that serves as an ice road is melting early. That's been deadly for some, and is leaving others unable to travel. Length:

• Audio: Amid Climate And Housing Crises, Cities Struggle To Place Housing Near Transit

  How are cities solving climate and housing problems, and where is the push back? Length: 3 min 37 sec

• Audio: As Oil Drilling Nears In Arctic Refuge, 2 Alaska Villages See Different Futures

  As the Trump Administration opens oil drilling in arctic refuges, how are surrounding villages reacting? Length: 4 min 15 sec

• Audio: As The Energy Market Changes, Another Coal Company Declares Bankruptcy

  Another major coal company has declared bankruptcy. It's just the latest blow for an industry that continues to struggle in a fast-changing energy market. Length: 5 min 19 sec

• Audio: As Warm Winters Mess With Nut Trees' Sex Lives, Farmers Help Them 'Netflix And Chill'

  California Central Valley fruit and nut orchards depend on a synchronized springtime bloom for pollination. But as winters warm with climate change, that seasonal cycle is being thrown off. Length: 3 min 52 sec

• Audio: Better Late Than Never? Big Companies Scramble To Make Lofty Climate Promises

  Major corporations are making promises on climate. How could this affect markets? Published on NPR, February 27th, 2020

• Audio: California Wine Makers Examine Climate's Effect On Their Industry

  After several bad wildfire seasons and now rolling power blackouts, winemakers in Sonoma and Napa are having to take a hard look at how climate change is impacting their product and business. Length: 4 min 40 sec

• Audio: Climate Change Complicates Counting Some Alaska Native Villages For Census

  Warming Temperatures and Melting Permafrost are making accurate census counts in Alaska's indigenous villages challenging. Length: 4 min 48 sec

• Audio: Climate Change May Make The Snapping Shrimp Snap Louder

  Tiny snapping shrimp are among of the loudest animals in the ocean. And climate change could be making them louder, which affects a lot of other sea life.

• Audio: Climate Change Threatens Future Of Sports

  How climate change is impacting sports around the globe? Length: 4 min 31 sec

• Audio: Colorado's Oil And Gas Regulators Must Now Consider Public Health And Safety

  After years of tension over expanded oil and gas drilling, including a deadly explosion that galvanized critics, Colorado is moving to tighten regulations on the booming industry. Length: 3 min 37 sec

• Audio: Driven By Climate Change, Desalination Researchers Seek Solutions To Water Scarcity

  Scientists predict water scarcity will become dramatically worse. Is desalination technology the solution? Length: 9 min 30 sec

• Audio: Experts Say U.S. Power Grid Needs To Change Before Shifting To All Renewable Energy

  More cities, states, and even utilities are pledging to shift to all renewable energy. But experts say the nation's power grid needs a lot of changes to make that happen. Length:

• Audio: Finding New Opportunity For Old Coal-Fired Power Plant Sites

  Coal-Fired power plants are continuing to close. Those sites are getting a new life. Audio Length: 3 min 46 sec

• Audio: For The Few Who Heat Homes With Coal, It's Still King

  Burning coal for heating is a cheaper option for some households. But what are the sustainability consequences? Length: 3 min 56 sec

• Audio: Going 'Zero Carbon' Is All The Rage. But Will It Slow Climate Change?

  In the face of Climate Change, governments and businesses are making emissions reductions commitments. Are these commitments going to work? Length:

• Audio: How Some Florida Communities Are Adjusting To Climate Change

  Repeated flooding from severe weather is forcing communities in Florida to plan for climate change. But the high costs suggest some homes and neighborhoods will have to be abandoned. Length: 3 min 29 sec

• Audio: In Midst Of An Oil Boom, New Mexico Sets Bold New Climate Goals

  New Mexico, a poor but fossil fuel-rich state, is aiming to make itself a national leader in the fight against climate change. Length: 5 min 46 sec

• Audio: In Mozambique, Meteorologists Can't Keep Up With Climate Change

  Mozambique relies on weather maps created by wealthier nations. What does this mean in one of the countries hardest-hit by climate change? Length: 12 min 16 sec

• Audio: Kids' Climate Case 'Reluctantly' Dismissed By Appeals Court

  A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by nearly two dozen young people aimed at forcing the federal government to take bolder action on climate change. Length: 2 min 4 sec

• Audio: Mongolia's Capital Banned Coal To Fix Its Pollution Problem. Will It Work?

  Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is bitterly cold and growing. Without infrastructure to service all 1.4 million people, residents off the electric grid are burning raw coal to stay warm. The result? Winters with extreme air pollution. Length: 7 min 17 sec

• Audio: Mongolia's Long Road to Mining Wealth

  Mining wealth is transforming Mongolia's economy. What does this mean for the Mongolian people, environment, and future? Audio Length: 6 min 48 sec

• Audio: Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine

  Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fire is key to optimizing forest vitality and biodiversity. Length: 27 min 36 sec

• Audio: New England Farmers Combat Climate Change With Biochar

  Jon Kalish (@kalishjon) reports on New England entrepreneurs, farmers and gardeners turning to biochar to improve soil. Length: 5 min 6 sec

• Audio: President Trump, Climate Change And 1 Trillion Trees

  NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Janet Ranganathan of the World Resources Institute about the Trillion Trees initiative which President Trump said the U.S. would contribute to at Davos. Length:

• Audio: Scientists Prioritize Protection of 'Climate Refugia'

  As climate change drives temperatures higher, scientists are finding places that are warming slightly less. Length: 3 min 22 sec

• Audio:There's A Lot At Stake In The Weekly U.S. Drought Map

  Drought conditions are spreading. What tools are agriculture, urban, and environmental planners using to make decisions? Length: 3 min 55 sec

• Audio: This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer

  Nuclear power plants are so big, complicated and expensive to build that more are shutting down than opening up. An Oregon company, NuScale Power, wants to change that trend. Length: 3 min 56 sec

• Audio: This Oil Spill Has Been Leaking Into The Gulf For 14 Years

  The spill began in 2004, when Hurricane Ivan toppled an oil rig into the Gulf. The rig was owned by Taylor Energy, a New Orleans-based company, which managed to plug some of the 25 broken pipes, but the leak continued. Length: 4 min 15 sec

• Audio: Tropical Fish Are No Longer Just In The Tropics As Climate Change Affects Habitats

  Climate change is fueling some big changes under the sea. Tropical reef fish are being found far from the tropics. Scientists worry about what the shifts will mean for ecosystems.Length: 4 min 58 sec

• Audio:Trump Administration Shortcuts Science To Give California Farmers More Water

  The Trump Administration is channeling water to farmers in California's Central Valley. How is interfering in state water decision-making process interference affecting the future of California's limited water supply? Length: 3 min 16 sec

• Audio: Trump EPA Proposes Major Rollback Of Federal Water Protections

  Vast amounts of wetlands and thousands of miles of U.S. waterways would no longer be federally protected by the Clean Water Act under a new proposal by the Trump administration. Length: 2 min 55 sec

• Audio: What Power Outages Mean For Solar's Potential

  Amid widespread blackouts in California, solar companies are seeing a huge spike in interest. They argue the future grid should be local and independent of the massive power lines that spark fires. Length: 3 min 56 sec

• Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis On the Care For Our Common Home

  Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis On the Care For Our Common Home

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  Essay: Beginning with the End

  What do we mean when we say “the world is ending”? Professor Roy Scranton examines the nature of the narratives we tell ourselves about the future.

• Graphic: Countries by Population Size

  A graphic representing the global population by country.

• Paper: Psychological effects of air pollution on healthy residents—A time-series approach

  A paper on the effects of air pollution on psychological state, mental functioning and physiological arousal.

• Video: 24 Hours of Reality: "Earthrise" by Amanda Gorman

• Video: An Interview with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Robin Wall Kimmerer Ph. D. discusses how indigenous perspectives on our relationship with the land can inform how we interact with nature. Length: 4 min 40 sec

• Video: Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2)

  This video provides an overview of the Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem. Video length: 4 minutes, 6 seconds

• Video: Collaboration Leads to Forest Restoration

  This video highlights the accomplishments of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Program on the Payette National Forest. Length: 13 min 17 sec

• Video: Environmental Justice: Peggy Shepard at TEDxHarlem

  Peggy Shepard brings to the TEDxHarlem stage a talk around Environmental Justice and surfacing the meme of "Sacrifice Zones." Video Length: 7 min 52 sec

• Video: Fire and Forest Health

  Learn what's being done to prevent and combat wildfires in Tahoe National Forest. Length: 11 min 27 sec

• Video: Flint's water crisis, explained in 3 minutes

  Flint, Michigan, tried to save money on water. Now its children have lead poisoning. Joe Posner explains. Length: 3 min 36 sec

• Video: Here's How the National Park Service Got Started

  Explore the history of how the National Park Service came to be and how Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Roosevelt and Wilson helped protect areas like Yosemite and Yellowstone. Length: 4 min 12 sec

• Video: Improving Fish Habitat: a Story of Collaboration with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

  This video describes a joint effort by the Forest Service and the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe to restore the Upper Dungeness Watershed in October 2016. Length: 7 min 18 sec

• Video: Is Ecofeminism still relevant? -- Our Changing Climate

  Is ecofeminism is a viable lens through which to understand our current environmental and gender-related circumstances? Length: 7 min

• Video: Is This Recyclable?

  Video explains changes to the campus recycling policy. Produced in 2019. Video length: 4 minutes, 29 seconds. Additional recycling policy information available at green.nd.edu/resources/recycling-resource/

• Video: Is This Recyclable? (With Pauses for In-Class Instruction)

  Video explains changes to the campus recycling policy. Produced in 2019. Video length: 6 minutes, 30 seconds.

• Video: Keep It Public | History of Public Lands

  A history of the federal public lands that belong to all Americans. Length: 3 min 59 sec

• Video: National Forests – It’s All Yours

  World-renowned outdoor athletes share why National Forests are important to them. Length: 3 min 35 sec

• Video: Questions for a Resilient Future: Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Robin Wall Kimmerer Ph. D. questions the extraction relationship humans have with nature and calls for a change in that paradigm. Length: 16 min 56 sec

• Video: Reclaiming the Honorable Harvest: Robin Kimmerer at TEDxSitka

  Robin Wall Kimmerer discusses how indigenous approaches to the harvest and relating to the earth can help heal our relationship with nature. Length: 17 min 57 sec

• Video: Super Polluters: A Documentary from The Weather Channel

  This film is about the worst emitting industrial sites in the country. Length: 12 min 16 sec.

• Video: TEDxGrandValley -- An Ecofeminist Perspective

  Julia M. Mason is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies. Length: 10 min 43 sec

• Video: TEDxMasala - Dr Vandana Shiva - Solutions to the food and ecological crisis facing us today.

  Dr Shiva Vandana is a philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author of several books. Length: 11 min 40 sec

• Video: TEDxSBU -- Eco-Grief and Ecofeminism

  Heidi Hutner's talk on "Eco-Grief and Ecofeminism", is the story her journey into environmental teaching and activism, after her cancer diagnosis at 35, and after the loss of her parents. Length: 16 min 54 sec

• Video: TEDxTC - Winona LaDuke - Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life. Length: 16 min 36 sec.

  Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems.

• Video: The U.S. Navy's base in Norfolk, Virginia, is under threat from rising seas

  An Immediate Threat: Naval Station Norfolk — home to America’s Atlantic Fleet — is under threat by rising seas and sinking land, but little is being done to hold back the tides. Length: 6 min

• Video: TIL: From Fleece Jackets to Your Food: The Scary Journey of Microplastics | Today I Learned

  National Geographic explorer and grantee Gregg Treinish wants everyone to know about the hidden toxic cost of synthetic fabrics. Length: 1 min 19 sec

• Video: UN climate change report warns about rising carbon emissions

  A major new report from the United Nations warns that countries around the world aren't doing enough to control the CO2 emissions that are warming the climate. Length: 5 min 42 sec

• Video: University of Notre Dame's Grind 2 Energy System

  Explains ND's food waste solution. Produced in 2019.

• Video: We are the Forest Service

  U.S. Forest Service employees share their jobs, responsibilities, and impact. Length: 6 min 56 sec