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Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Campaigns and social media often encourage people to make eco-friendly choices like using less plastic or driving less. While these actions are important, focusing so much on what people do can distract from the much larger role that businesses and governments play in causing and solving environmental problems.

Another day brings another monster tide for residents of Carteret county, North Carolina, whose coastal towns and villages are being swallowed by the rising Atlantic. Nonetheless, its voters returned Donald Trump to the White House, a man who denies the science of climate change and had withdrawn his country from…

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Storm Éowyn has unleashed strong and damaging winds over the British Isles, and particularly over Ireland and Scotland.

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Burnt. Smoky. Medicinal. Each of these represents a subcategory of “peaty” whisky in the Scotch Whisky Research Institute’s brightly coloured flavour wheel.

World leaders have gathered for the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. One of their main goals is to align their responses to geopolitical shocks such as floods and wildfires that hamper trade, investment and more.

Climate scientists are probably among those most aggrieved by Donald Trump’s return as US president.

Firefighters in Los Angeles continue to battle devastating wildfires that have killed at least 27 people and left thousands of homes destroyed. A new fire also provoked evacuation orders north of the city.