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Atlas was cursed to hold up the world. Should we be?

Atlas was cursed to hold up the world. Should we be?

Nic Muranaka March 21, 2019
Alternate headline: The world’s getting warmer; so what?
As ice glaciers melt, denials of climate continue to burn

As ice glaciers melt, denials of climate continue to burn

Daryn Steed February 21, 2019

I was standing in front of the Sólheimajökull glacier in 2018, lacing my boots before we started our climb to a wall a few hundred yards up the ice. Our guide was telling us the height of the...

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Warning Wildcats about wildfires

Kainoa Nunez February 9, 2019

Weber State University students and faculty gathered on Feb. 6 in Tracy Hall to learn about the physics and impact of wildfires with guest speaker John Horel. As a professor and chair of the department...

The cast of "Black Panther" during the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Do you know your news? Jan. 31

Nic Muranaka January 31, 2019

1. Which 2020 Democratic president hopeful recently criticized tech giant corporations for sponsoring the LibertyCon conference in Washington because the conference included a session denying climate change?a....

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12 years to doomsday

Weston Lee October 30, 2018

Nearly 99 percent of the world's coral reefs are expected to be killed off according to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released Oct. 8. These consequences, outlined among others...

The coral restoration team, Rivah Winters, one of the Inventors-in-Residence at the Frost Museum of Science and Curator of aquarium content and marine science, along with Andrew Baker, an associate professor of marine biology and ecology at UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science are stress-testing coral in the Inventors Lab at the Frost Museum of Science to make reefs more climate change resilient.  (Emily Michot/Miami Herald/TNS)

Do you know your news? March 15

Kara Mitchell March 14, 2018

1. What are scientists at the Frost Museum of Science growing that could be a game changer in the fight against global warming?a. Colonies of super coralb. Beefc. Carbon storing plants2. Which country...

Professor of Geography Dr. Daniel Bedford, left, speaking as part of the panel on "The Role of Education in a Post-Fact World," hosted by the Honors Program. (The Signpost Archives)

Climate change: our history and future

Brittany Fuhs February 16, 2018

Dan Bedford, Weber State University geography professor and co-author of “Climate Change: Examining the Facts," detailed the 160-year history of climate change on Feb. 12 as part of the Weber Historical...

Previews week of Feb. 5

Maddy Van Orman February 7, 2018

Career FairThe 2018 Career/Internship Fair will be held Feb. 7 from 9 a.m.–2 p.m. in the Shepherd Union Building ballrooms. The Career Fair is an opportunity for students and alumni to network with...

Weber State University Students gathered over lunch in the Shepherd Union ballrooms on November 15 to discuss solutions to climate change. (Pexels)

Let’s talk about climate change, but nicely

John Wise November 18, 2017
“A lot of times people listen to respond instead of to understand," said Erin Dominguez.
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Climate change documentary attempts to salvage humanity

Kierstynn King November 4, 2017

Weber State University's Environmental Ambassadors club joined with SPARK to showcase a documentary on climate change on Oct. 27. The documentary was titled "How to Let Go of the World and Love All the...

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Stand-up economist to perform at WSU

Patrick Luo October 27, 2017

Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman, a stand-up comedian who discusses economics, will perform at the Weber State University Wildcat Theater on Nov. 2 from noon–1:30 p.m. and later at the Dumke Legacy...

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson speaking at the Intermountain Sustainability Summit at Weber State University on Friday, March 17. (Signpost Archives)

Weber State’s steps toward a green future

J. Michael Bailey October 13, 2017

Though scientific studies and immense catalogs of data have been collected to support claims acknowledging climate change as a real and pressing danger to our environment, the validity of climate change...

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