Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2021
Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. In order for the land to be fruitful, there needs to be water,” she said.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 7, 2023
The national student voting rate increased by 14% between just 2016 and 2020. The high yield rate between student registration and student turnout occurred in part due to increased youth political mobilization , with movements mobilizing students around pressing issues such as climate change and gun control.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
While they might seem like a small token of participation, “I Voted” stickers help normalize voting as an expected social norm – political scientists have highlighted that people are more likely to vote when they think that others around them vote, too. Back in 2016, the U.C.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 28, 2023
For a healthy democracy made up of educated and active voters, it would help to better understand the connection between educational attainment and political engagement, and ways to overcome this contradiction. Other on-campus factors beyond one-time events also contribute to increased student voter turnout.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The cooperation was extended in December 2016. Notably, China’s import of enriched materials from the United States has decreased substantially since 2016. While this reactor was initially intended to transition to mixed oxide (MOX) fuel by 2015, delays in development led China to continue relying on Russian fuel.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet. The biggest barriers to progress are political and psychological.
Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. As in the U.S.,
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