NewsPronto

 
The Times


.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

How a game can move people from climate apathy to action

  • Written by Juliette N. Rooney-Varga, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
High school students at the University of Maine Farmington’s Upward Bound program playing the World Climate simulation. Mary Sinclair, CC BY-ND

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been called a “deafening” alarm and an “ear-splitting wake-up call” about the need for sweeping...

Read more: How a game can move people from climate apathy to action

More Articles ...

  1. Rising insurance costs may convince Americans that climate change risks are real
  2. 3 dangers of rising temperatures that could affect your health now
  3. In Alaska, everyone's grappling with climate change
  4. How winning $1 billion in Mega Millions could lead to bankruptcy
  5. How winning $1.6 billion in Mega Millions could still lead to bankruptcy
  6. How winning $1.54 billion in Mega Millions could still lead to bankruptcy
  7. The Mega Millions jackpot is now more than US$1 billion – where does all that lottery profit really go?
  8. The Mega Millions jackpot is now more than $1 billion – where does all that lottery profit really go?
  9. El partidismo está profundamente arraigado en EEUU, incluso entre los votantes 'independientes'
  10. Why radiation protection experts are concerned over EPA proposal
  11. Congress takes first steps toward regulating artificial intelligence
  12. Sewage surveillance is the next frontier in the fight against polio
  13. Jamal Khashoggi: Casualty of the Trump administration’s disregard for democracy and civil rights in the Middle East?
  14. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art
  15. New data tool can help scientists use limited funds to protect the greatest number of endangered species
  16. Taxes and caps on carbon work differently but calibrating them poses the same challenge
  17. Arms sales to Saudi Arabia give Trump all the leverage he needs in Khashoggi affair
  18. Generation Z voters could make waves in 2018 midterm elections
  19. Government-funded buyouts after disasters are slow and inequitable – here's how that could change
  20. Trump sees opportunity in Venezuela's humanitarian crisis as midterms approach
  21. Blockchains won't fix internet voting security – and could make it worse
  22. What Thomas Jefferson, Donald Trump and the American people think about freedom of the press
  23. Would a Space Force mean the end of NASA?
  24. Why health apps are like the Wild West, with Apple just riding into town
  25. How Turkey and Saudi Arabia became frenemies – and why the Khashoggi case could change that
  26. Partisanship runs deep in America - even among 'independents'
  27. The Violence Against Women Act is unlikely to reduce intimate partner violence – here's why
  28. America's archaeology data keeps disappearing -- even though the law says the government is supposed to preserve it
  29. How monitoring local water supplies can build community
  30. Meet AICAN, a machine that operates as an autonomous artist
  31. Open-source hardware could defend against the next generation of hacking
  32. Free trade isn't dead yet – despite Trump's threats to the system that upholds it
  33. A Great Lakes pipeline dispute points to a broader energy dilemma
  34. We tested women and men for breast cancer genes – only 18 percent knew they had it
  35. ¿Reactivará la economía argentina un rescate internacional de 50.000 millones de dólares?
  36. The mosques that survived Palu's tsunami and what that means
  37. Is exercise still important to weight loss? Absolutely, a doctor says
  38. When the line between machine and artist becomes blurred
  39. How scientists are fighting infection-causing biofilms
  40. Evolution is at work in computers as well as life sciences
  41. Arms and influence in the Khashoggi affair
  42. How the polls could have caught 'surprise' victories like Trump's
  43. Masacres, desapariciones y 1968: los mexicanos recuerdan a las víctimas de la ‘dictadura perfecta’
  44. Fixing a broken process for nominating US Supreme Court justices
  45. Why is it so hard to get an accurate vote count?
  46. Migrant money could be keeping Nicaragua's uprising alive
  47. Taxing carbon may sound like a good idea but does it work?
  48. Eating royal poop improves parenting in naked mole-rats
  49. More college students expected to vote in 2018 midterms
  50. Dispatches from the morgue: Toxicology tests don't tell the whole story of the opioid epidemic