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Marginalized communities experience disproportionately poor environmental health outcomes. Researchers have found that green spaces are smaller and less common in such communities. However, researchers have also found that the creation of green…

The EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) updates a database that details Landfill Gas Energy Projects (LFG) across landfills throughout the United States. The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) conducts a yearly overview that…

Based on the above maps, in Lower Westchester, there is a positive correlation between impervious surface cover and heat vulnerability and a negative correlation between tree canopy cover and heat vulnerability. Due to albedo and other geophysical…

This project directly compares income and food insecurity between the states of Washington and Arizona. Much of this analysis is done on a county scale finding that Washington state is less food insecure than Arizona and that urban areas experience…

In Nicaragua, natural disasters are somewhat dispersed throughout
the country, but seem to be more prevalent on the western half. In
this region, there is a significant amount of current and recent
volcanism along the Central America Volcanic Arc.…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena are the two parties shown in the center map which depicts the election results and the composition of religious demographics. The center map shows districts in which the BJP and Shiv Sena won the…

This project looks at the intersection between tree cover, population density, and suicide rates in the state of California.

Hurricane Katrina, the deadliest and costliest hurricane in U.S. history since 1928, devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Claiming over 1,500 lives, predominantly in New Orleans, the storm inflicted an estimated $70 billion in damages to the city alone…

To pollinate the innumerable almond blossoms that must be pollinated, honey bees are shipped into California in January. Without an interstate network of traveling apiarists, sufficient fertilization of the flowers to current industrial levels could…

For all environmental hazards, those living in disadvantaged communities (often lower socioeconomic status and people of color) are at more risk in the Hudson Valley. The city of Beacon and the surrounding town of Fishkill exemplify this.