USC Dornsife-led research indicates that obvious reasons for higher infant mortality rates following damaging storms, such as reduced pre-natal care and diminished nutrition, are surprisingly not the culprits, but instead more obscure factors may be at play.
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The climate policy pendulum is swinging back again with Trump in office. Money, lobbying and talking about red vs. blue states all play a role in the political and public divide.
USC Dornsife scientists discover how a deadly combination of factors led to disaster. They hope their research will help identify other regions vulnerable to similar flooding events.
National leaders may be struggling to agree, but businesses see the economic benefits of clean energy, states are cutting emissions, and people everywhere are more cognizant of their actions.
The promised ‘white gold rush’ would extract lithium alongside geothermal power production. The mineral is used in EV batteries, but even this less-polluting mining raises local health concerns.
If you come across the same piece of misinformation several times, it will start to feel familiar – and familiar information feels more true.
Mapping daily temperature variations across the US revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and large differences by race.
At USC’s Capital Campus in Washington, D.C., policymakers, researchers and practitioners explored how nature can be used to address increasingly frequent climate-associated risks.
David Livingston ’10 gives students a new take on environmentalism in his role as USC Dornsife’s inaugural innovation and sustainability practitioner in residence.
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