Geology Professor Jay Banner, one of the authors of the federally mandated climate report released this past November, sat down with Spectrum News Austin’s Karina Kling to talk about what the climate and economic predictions mean for Texas and the southern U.S.

Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC) collaborated with the Planet Texas 2050 team to ensure that researcher/community relationships are established in a way that is socially and culturally appropriate while fostering long-term partnerships that benefit everyone.

Children have a remarkable understanding of the things around them that affect their health and their community’s wellbeing. Although they may not have the language to describe it, young children and adolescents feel and experience injustice and inequity; however, their voices are often silenced or dismissed as juvenile.

For all of our history, mobility has helped to ensure our species’ success. But as more and more of the world’s population lives in cities, as more and more of our infrastructure and wealth is invested in those cities, and as our national borders harden in response to population movements driven by the ancient impulse to flee from danger, this option is increasingly off the table.

Sharing data in real time to research project participants makes it easier to see how a research project could actually contribute to improving people’s health.

All scientists want to better the human condition, and they struggle with how to share research findings in ways that help people make changes quickly. It’s hard to take complicated ideas and make them easier to understand, but that’s exactly what we have to do.

As the Trans-Pecos continues to be a focal point of energy sprawl, we need to focus on the potential environmental impacts of these activities and how all stakeholders can work together to manage the confluence of substantial industrial activity in this rural and fragile part of Texas.

As we approach the first anniversary of last year’s unprecedented and costly hurricane season, we must build preparedness into everything we do, and we must do it together. Extreme weather events, from droughts to heat waves to floods from hurricanes, will become more frequent and more intense. The health and well-being of all of us are at stake.

The dominant languages of climate change have been scientific, technological and economic. But these languages alone cannot speak to the socially contingent beliefs and values that are at the root of human activities altering our planet. We need the knowledge the humanities and arts produce to prevent narratives such as Bacigalupi’s from becoming our reality. We must build common languages between architecture and archaeology, poetry and paleoclimatology, government and genetics.

Scientists from 13 different universities in the U.S. and Canada have descended upon a small house at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus and have brought with them the most sophisticated air pollution measurement equipment on earth to study indoor air quality as part of a major research effort known as HOMEChem (House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry).