As part of the University of Iowa Just Living Theme Semester, six new University of Iowa fellows are combining art and storytelling in the Office of Sustainability’s Climate Narrative Project to illustrate the staggering impacts of climate change and seek regenerative ways for climate action.
While global negotiators met in Paris last week to hammer out a climate accord, students with the University of Iowa’s Climate Narrative Project, which trains a new generation of climate storytellers by reaching across academic disciplines, had already begun the process of bringing the summit back to campus.
An inexpensive metal insert for traditional cookstoves could decrease global warming and reduce household pollution for thousands of women and children in developing countries, according to research by H. S. Udaykumar, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Iowa.
University of Iowa researchers, funded by the National Science Foundation, studied 774 stream gauges across 14 states and found flooding more frequent.
