Check out the recent media mentions of sustainability-related programs, practices, people at UNC:
Oceans choking on CO2, face deadly changes: study
Reuters (Wire Service)e
The world's oceans are virtually choking on rising greenhouse gases, destroying marine ecosystems and breaking down the food chain -- irreversible changes that have not occurred for several million years, a new study says. ...The world's climate has remained stable for several thousand years, but climate change in the past 150 years is now forcing organisms to change rapidly -- changes that through evolution would normally take a long time, said the report. "We are becoming increasingly certain that the world's marine ecosystems are approaching tipping points. These tipping points are where change accelerates and causes unrelated impacts on other systems," said co-author marine scientist John F. Bruno at the University of North Carolina
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Striving for Educational Equity
Inside Higher Ed
...In addition to building the case for more federal and state financial support for students from low-income backgrounds, the numbers also helped prompt a group of highly selective public and private institutions to alter their admissions and financial aid policies and practices to focus more on low-income students. One of those programs, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Covenant program, was celebrated Thursday at an event here at which the Century Foundation released a follow up to the 2004 book -- America's Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education -- in which Carnevale's and Rose's original analysis appeared.
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A Sea Change (Blog)
Time
Science publishes a special issue this week on "Changing Oceans." Perhaps the most striking article in the issue is a review on "The Impact of Climate Change on the World's Marine Ecosystems." The article begins by pointing out how oceans, which currently cover 71% of the earth's surface, nurtured life on our planet. The paper then goes on to list the drastic and at times horrifying ways that human activities are already driving rapid changes to ocean ecosystems. I briefly caught up with John Bruno of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who co-authored the review with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of The University of Queensland, to discuss why oceans, after cradling life for millions of years, may soon turn into giant graves.
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Casino city bans riding bikes through town
The Associated Press
The gambling town of Black Hawk has prohibited touring bicyclists from pedaling while in town, becoming what's thought by cycling advocates to be the only city in the nation with such a restriction. ...Charlie Zegeer, Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation-funded Pedestrian and Bicycling Information Center at the University of North Carolina, said communities concerned about safety provide alternate routes. Cities in Europe that were built centuries ago have also made accommodations, Zegeer said. "It's a matter of priorities," he said.
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Agency helps find workers affordable houses
The Star-News (Wilmington)
In 2006, Resea Willis asked the question: “Why can’t working people find affordable housing in Brunswick County?” ...The North Carolina Community Development Corporation funded a study by the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, which was completed in 2007. The study showed that fast-growing Brunswick County had a shortage of affordable housing for essential workers, which caused traffic congestion, longer commuting times, and more air pollution. Click here to read more.
UNC Oil Estimate
WGHP-TV (Greensboro)
After the Gulf oil rig explosion and the oil leak that followed, many groups, including BP and the U.S. Government, had developed many different estimates on how much oil was gushing from the well each day. In this edition of the Buckley Report, a professor and his students at UNC-Chapel Hill found out that it wasn't too hard to figure out exactly how much oil was spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.
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-Thanks to UNC News Services for finding these great stories AND compiling the summaries! You can find more UNC media coverage and stories online at http://uncnews.unc.edu
Oceans choking on CO2, face deadly changes: study
Reuters (Wire Service)e
The world's oceans are virtually choking on rising greenhouse gases, destroying marine ecosystems and breaking down the food chain -- irreversible changes that have not occurred for several million years, a new study says. ...The world's climate has remained stable for several thousand years, but climate change in the past 150 years is now forcing organisms to change rapidly -- changes that through evolution would normally take a long time, said the report. "We are becoming increasingly certain that the world's marine ecosystems are approaching tipping points. These tipping points are where change accelerates and causes unrelated impacts on other systems," said co-author marine scientist John F. Bruno at the University of North Carolina
Click here to read more.
Striving for Educational Equity
Inside Higher Ed
...In addition to building the case for more federal and state financial support for students from low-income backgrounds, the numbers also helped prompt a group of highly selective public and private institutions to alter their admissions and financial aid policies and practices to focus more on low-income students. One of those programs, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Covenant program, was celebrated Thursday at an event here at which the Century Foundation released a follow up to the 2004 book -- America's Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education -- in which Carnevale's and Rose's original analysis appeared.
Click here to read more.
A Sea Change (Blog)
Time
Science publishes a special issue this week on "Changing Oceans." Perhaps the most striking article in the issue is a review on "The Impact of Climate Change on the World's Marine Ecosystems." The article begins by pointing out how oceans, which currently cover 71% of the earth's surface, nurtured life on our planet. The paper then goes on to list the drastic and at times horrifying ways that human activities are already driving rapid changes to ocean ecosystems. I briefly caught up with John Bruno of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who co-authored the review with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of The University of Queensland, to discuss why oceans, after cradling life for millions of years, may soon turn into giant graves.
Click here to read more.
Casino city bans riding bikes through town
The Associated Press
The gambling town of Black Hawk has prohibited touring bicyclists from pedaling while in town, becoming what's thought by cycling advocates to be the only city in the nation with such a restriction. ...Charlie Zegeer, Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation-funded Pedestrian and Bicycling Information Center at the University of North Carolina, said communities concerned about safety provide alternate routes. Cities in Europe that were built centuries ago have also made accommodations, Zegeer said. "It's a matter of priorities," he said.
Click here to read more.
Agency helps find workers affordable houses
The Star-News (Wilmington)
In 2006, Resea Willis asked the question: “Why can’t working people find affordable housing in Brunswick County?” ...The North Carolina Community Development Corporation funded a study by the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, which was completed in 2007. The study showed that fast-growing Brunswick County had a shortage of affordable housing for essential workers, which caused traffic congestion, longer commuting times, and more air pollution. Click here to read more.
UNC Oil Estimate
WGHP-TV (Greensboro)
After the Gulf oil rig explosion and the oil leak that followed, many groups, including BP and the U.S. Government, had developed many different estimates on how much oil was gushing from the well each day. In this edition of the Buckley Report, a professor and his students at UNC-Chapel Hill found out that it wasn't too hard to figure out exactly how much oil was spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.
Click here to read more.
-Thanks to UNC News Services for finding these great stories AND compiling the summaries! You can find more UNC media coverage and stories online at http://uncnews.unc.edu
