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Thousands of toxic sites are at risk of coastal flooding. Flooding in New Orleans, Louisiana by Joshua Brownfeld is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal.

Thousands of toxic sites are at risk of coastal flooding

Audrey Cronk, For Eastside December 7, 2025

Over a period of time, researchers have been studying the sites across the U.S that store, emit, or handle hazardous material. With a running total of 5,500 sites in the country, these facilities that handle sewage, trash, gas, oil, and chemical waste...

The Antarctic Peninsula now features some shockingly green landscapes.

Antarctica is getting warmer—and greener

Izzy Alvarez, Eastside Photo Editor October 9, 2024

Recent research shows that the Antarctic Peninsula has undergone a dramatic increase in vegetation cover, with the area of plant life expanding 14 times over the past 35 years. This "greening" was discovered by scientists from the University of Exeter,...

Environmentalists oppose the project outside the Department of the Interior

Exploring the Willow Project

Selam Bereketab, Eastside Staff April 3, 2023

The climate crisis refers to the human-caused, long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns linked to rising sea levels, storms, the loss of wildlife, droughts, wildfires, and more harrowing problems. It is an issue that the United Nations, made...

A comparison of Lake Mead, a water reservoir linked to the Colorado River between 2000 and 2021. (Courtesy of NASA)

The Colorado River is drying up

Batul El Barouki, Eastside Staff October 20, 2022

Rivers carry water and nutrients all around the earth. They are absolutely essential for fresh drinking water, impacting people’s lives and nature. The Colorado river, for example, supplies water to around forty million people. However, scientists say...

Shaping tomorrow: The importance of climate change education

Max Gaffin, Eastside Editor-in-Chief December 15, 2021

As the Earth continues to warm, and the world moves into 2022, it is now that action and concrete steps must be taken before we are at the point of no return. Greenhouse gases and carbon emissions fill the atmosphere, leaving Earth warmer than it was...

Exploring student perspectives on climate change

Exploring student perspectives on climate change

Julia Boehning, Eastside Online Features Editor December 15, 2021

In recent years, combating climate change has become an increasingly pressing issue nationally and globally. In August of 2021, the United Nations (UN) released a report outlining the potential long-term effects of current human activities on the...

What is Climate Change?

Ellie Noh, Eastside Community Editor December 15, 2021

Although defined by the United Nations as “long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns”, climate change and its substantial effects on the world are much more than this modest definition can encapsulate. Climate change is one of the most...

Taking action to address the climate crisis

Sophia Liu, Eastside Online STEM Editor December 15, 2021

Imagine our world in 2050. Do you envision gleaming cities basked in a futuristic glow, sparkling with towering skyscrapers and bullet trains winding through the streets? Or, perhaps you see a world where disease and disaster run rampant: a place...

The Paris Agreement, a global agreement that entered into force in 2016, has the goal of "strengthen[ing] the global response to the threat of climate change."

East alum works to combat climate change

Samantha Roehl, Eastside Editor-in-Chief April 8, 2020

In 2015, almost every country in the world signed on to the Paris Agreement, in which they agreed to work together to fight climate change. Unlike previous attempts to address climate change, the Paris Agreement did not tell countries what specific steps...