Environment

Growing up, Lydia Duran, 19, wanted a chalkboard so she could play teacher. This was the foundation for her desire to help kids and minorities.

Some Stony Brook students are trying to turn a new leaf in campus SINC sites by saving leaves of paper. Stony Brook’s environmental club has been trying to get a double-sided printing default implemented in all SINC sites. Between 715 and 740 students signed a Facebook petition last semester to have double-sided paper as the printing standard, according to Justin Grimm-Greenblatt, president of the club.

"Compelling" evidence has been found in a new study that global warming is, in fact, both real and caused by humans.
The study was conducted by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI).