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Report analyzing flight miles and resulting CO2 emissions from students who studied abroad and Vassar funded faculty flights. Data from fiscal years 2022-2024

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.

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…

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…