We're thrilled to announce the 2022 winners of our Friend of the Planet and Friend of Darwin awards: ncse.ngo/friend-darwin-
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"Scientists and advocates have told the Guardian they have become unnerved by a recent resurgence of debunked climate change denialist talking points and memes on Twitter." Featuring , a member of NCSE's board of directors.
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Robert Bullard (), the "father of environmental justice," answered questions from Inside Climate News about his thoughts on COP27.
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"But now, at long last, paleontologists have found a swimming dinosaur," writes Riley Black ().
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"Two papers discovered in libraries are now playing a key role in lawsuits aimed at holding oil companies accountable for climate change."
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The asks students, "How important do you think it is for young people to learn about climate change?"
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Mark your calendar for the return of the documentary We Believe in Dinosaurs: airing on select PBS stations on December 19 and freely streaming online from December 19 to January 15.
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Join our Teach Climate Network for a workshop on overcoming barriers to teaching about climate change with 's Andy Epton. Register for the December 21 workshop at bit.ly/3EVvLVE.
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Writing for , NCSE's Deputy Director Glenn Branch cites Svante Pääbo's Nobel Prize-winning research on the Neanderthal genome in the course of urging the importance of teaching human evolution.
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"Archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists anticipate that the skull could give a fuller picture of the diverse family tree of archaic humans living throughout Eurasia in prehistoric times."
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What was the upshot of COP27, the recent climate change conference in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt?
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"It’s important to let politicians and policymakers everywhere know that a healthy majority of Americans support, expect, and demand climate change education."
Read more from Glenn Branch, deputy director of the ⬇️
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At its November 18th meeting, the Texas state board of education declined to improve the state social studies standards by adding material about climate change.
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Newly added to Darwin Online: the very first biography of Charles Darwin, published in 1882.
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[Tomorrow] Join us as we honor this year's awardees: a select few whose efforts to support NCSE and advance its goal of defending and supporting the teaching of evolution and climate science have been truly outstanding.
Register here 👉 buff.ly/3Vnp6sU
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"The skeleton of 'Barbara', a pregnant and injured tyrannosaurus, raises a shocking possibility: that these dinosaurs had a touchy-feely side."
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#ICYMI: Along with collaborators , , and NOAA's Climate.Gov, the efforts of CLEAN and the climate education community were highlighted in the : nyti.ms/3uw6dZd
Happy to see teachers who go above & beyond to teach climate highlighted 🧑🏫
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Writing on DeSmog, NCSE's Deputy Director Glenn Branch dissected a recent press release from the climate-change-denying Heartland Institute that inadvertently undermined its longstanding denial of a scientific consensus on climate change.
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Two More Days: During the 2022 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet Celebration, we will honor this year's awardees.
Join us Thursday 👉buff.ly/3Vnp6sU
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NCSE was featured in "Écoles américaines: Dieu fait la classe" ("American schools: God is teaching the class"), a report in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the interaction between religion and public schools in the United States.
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"Thanks to the advent of exascale computing, local climate forecasts may soon be a reality. And they're not just for scientists anymore."
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Take 's short quiz to test your own knowledge of climate change
(and see how you stack up against today's high school students).
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Saltwater can seep through cracks in buildings' foundations and corrode steel supports.
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Asked "Do you think that climate change is happening, do you think climate change is not happening, or aren't you sure?" 74% of respondents said yes, 8% said no, and 18% said that they were not sure.
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"Despite record fossil fuel pollution in 2022, plummeting clean technology costs and backlashes to Russia's war in Ukraine leave open a path to meeting Paris climate targets," writes Dana Nuccitelli ().
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"As far as I have been able to discover, the person who first attempted to measure the changes that lifeforms have wrought, and who had the clearest sense of why they have an impact, was none other than Charles Darwin," writes Olivia Judson.
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