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5 Ways to Keep Climate Anxiety at Bay from Britt Wray

Britt Wray's talk captivated an audience of nearly 200 UVA faculty, students, and staff eager to hear about ways to transform climate anxiety to climate action and hope.
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Q&A: How Do You Fight Climate Anxiety?

The Environmental Institute and Contemplative Sciences Center hosted a conversation on the effect of climate change on mental health. Two UVA scholars answered questions on climate anxiety ahead of the...
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Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard

Two EI affiliates, Jonathan Colmer and Jay Shimshack, analyzed the most polluted U.S. census tracts and were cited in a recent article in The Conversation about federal efforts to protect...

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The Institute Announces Four Awards for Novel Environmental Research

The Environmental Institute awarded four grants to UVA faculty studying topics such as environmental impacts of artificial intelligence, equity and sustainability concerns with electric car data storage, low-carbon building design...
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The Globe with a "help" sign behind it

5 Ways to Keep Climate Anxiety at Bay from Britt Wray

Britt Wray's talk captivated an audience of nearly 200 UVA faculty, students, and staff eager to hear about ways to transform climate anxiety to climate action and hope.
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illustration of person standing at a window

Q&A: How Do You Fight Climate Anxiety?

The Environmental Institute and Contemplative Sciences Center hosted a conversation on the effect of climate change on mental health. Two UVA scholars answered questions on climate anxiety ahead of the...
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Photo of an oil refinery at dusk

Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard

Two EI affiliates, Jonathan Colmer and Jay Shimshack, analyzed the most polluted U.S. census tracts and were cited in a recent article in The Conversation about federal efforts to protect...
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White House Recruits UVA's Environmental Institute's Associate Director

Andrés Clarens, whose research focuses on understanding decarbonization of infrastructure systems, will be an assistant director of the White House’s Office of Science Technology Policy .
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Researchers Find That Better Sharing of New “Eco-Innovations” Can Combat Rising Climate Despair

Climate despair is emerging as a psychosocial threat. But UVA researchers have found a potential source of hope that is underutilized.
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UVA Professors Will Turn the Movement of Rivers into Music

Two Environmental Institute affiliates are collaborating on a project that will translate the movement of rivers into music.
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Navigating Climate Challenges: UVA Engineers and Environmental Scientists Aid Virginia’s Eastern Shore

As part of UVA's Environmental Institute , professors Venkat Lashmi and Jonathan Goodall lead UVA climate resilience projects like the Climate Equity Atlas.
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Documenting Tangier’s Watermen: Student Project Headed for Library of Congress

A project funded through EI's Environmental Futures Fellows program documents the working landscape of watermen and the locations of their crab shanties.
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Does Climate Change Affect Democracy? Panelists Discussed Health Burdens and Migration Trends

As part of the Karsh Institute of Democracy’s multi-day event, Democracy360, the University of Virginia’s Environmental Institute convened experts to discuss two climate change challenges that deeply impact a democratic...