Featured Connection: Marine Engineering

Featured Connection: Marine Engineering

Making Ships Go Marine Engineering is a field of engineering that deals with the design, construction, operation, development, production, and maintenance of the marine equipment that forms a part of seagoing vessels, harbor installations, and docks. While naval...
How Unjust Is Your Environment?

How Unjust Is Your Environment?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Environmental Justice Index (EJI) ranks communities across the US according to environmental health risk. EJI is the first national geospatial tool to measure the cumulative impacts of social and environmental factors,...
American Climate Corps 

American Climate Corps 

President Biden announced a new initiative to train young people in high-demand skills for jobs in the clean energy economy. The American Climate Corps is designed to put a new generation of Americans to work conserving our lands and waters, bolstering community...
Featured Connection: Hydrology

Featured Connection: Hydrology

Water, Water Everywhere Water is among the most important resources on our planet. Without it, life would not exist. Hydrologists study how water moves across and through Earth’s crust. They study how rain, snow, and other forms of precipitation impact river flows or...
EPA Watchdog Report: Refineries Can’t Police Themselves

EPA Watchdog Report: Refineries Can’t Police Themselves

As the Latin expression puts it, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This is a phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, which is literally translated as “Who will guard the guards themselves?”  Well, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General, the...