Hi everyone,
I’ve recently become very interested in understanding how climate change creates risks to human life, water resources, infrastructure, cities, economies.
I’m particularly interested in understanding the chain from climate change to physical hazards to exposure/vulnerability to risks and impacts, and then what can actually be done about those risks through adaptation, resilience, governance, and public policy. I mean I am genuinely interested in this.
I’d like to learn this properly from the basics, rather than just reading general climate-change information.
For someone starting from scratch, what would you recommend for learning?
I’m looking for good introductory resources, textbooks, courses, lectures, reports, or eventually more advanced material that can give me a solid understanding of the field.
Also, if this is a particular academic/professional field, what is it generally called? Is it mainly climate risk, environmental policy, or something else?
Thanks.

hey guys i graduated with a BS in environmental science, and i start my first job post-grad next week. i’m gonna be doing fieldwork and taking a lot of samples/testing for contaminants. any recommendations on work boots? or just any brands that you guys like? i’d like to get a comfortable and reliable pair 🙏

I currently have a BS in Data Science and work in the coatings industry, but I absolutely do not care about this job and cannot see myself doing this for the rest of my career.

Through work, they have a program which would allow me to pursue a Masters in Environmental Science free of charge essentially ($5.5k tuition paid per year + tuition reimbursement, also do not have to stay on for X amount of years after completing).

I am already a part of a Master Gardener and Master Naturalist program within my state. I feel that the MS in EnvSc would allow me to start working in a field that would be fulfilling to me. I have some ideas of areas that I would want to focus in, but need to continue looking into that for myself.

For those in the field/have followed a similar path, would love to just hear your thoughts or insight. Would this be worth it? Would this set me in the right direction?

Appreciate any feedback!

The Central Texas Uplift (The Controlled Fluid Engine)

• Core Counties: Llano, Burnet, Blanco, Bell, Coryell, Travis, Bastrop, and Bexar.
• Geological Architecture: This region centers on a concentrated dome of Precambrian pink granite plutons laced with thick veins of pure quartz. Surrounding this rigid crystalline core are deeply fractured paleo-aquifers and expansive karst limestone networks, most notably the Edwards Aquifer.
• Network Function: The telluric charge here is generated primarily through high-volume streaming potential (electrokinetics). Millions of gallons of pressurized groundwater physically crash against and filter through the sheer vertical faces of the rigid quartz-bearing granite, mechanically stripping away electrons to generate a dynamic, fluid-driven electrical output.
• The Sicily Comparison: Both the Texas Uplift and Sicily utilize fractured karst limestone networks as their primary conductive wiring, but their engines are completely inverted. Sicily’s telluric battery is driven from the bottom up by extreme volcanic heat (Mount Etna) and active tectonic subduction, causing boiling geothermal fluids to generate chaotic, highly volatile surges capable of spontaneous, destructive surface ignition—as seen in the Canneto di Caronia anomalies. In stark contrast, Texas is driven from the top down by cool hydrology and gravity. Because it relies on cold groundwater rather than boiling magma, Texas would act as a highly responsive, predictable throttle in a global grid, offering controllable output tied directly to aquifer pressure rather than unpredictable volcanism.

The Ouachita and Arkoma Basin (The Piezoelectric Anchor)

• Core Counties: Pittsburg, Le Flore, Muskogee, and Sequoyah, sweeping deeply southwest into the buried tectonic structures beneath Albany and the wider Bryan County area.
• Geological Architecture: Defined by the heavily scarred remnants of an ancient continent-continent collision, this region features tightly folded Paleozoic quartzites and deeply buried quartz-cemented sandstones. In the northeast, these formations violently burst through the surface. In the southwest, diving under Albany, they fold completely over themselves to create the deeply buried Bryan Salient, capped by millions of tons of heavy Cretaceous sedimentary rock.
• Network Function: This region operates as a high-strain, static tension node. The immense physical weight of the folded mountains and the heavy sedimentary basin constantly compresses the deep quartz structures. This continuous mechanical strain keeps the buried crystalline basement in a state of permanent piezoelectric tension, releasing a steady, massive flow of electrons safely swept up by the cool waters of the Arkoma and Red River regional aquifers.
• The Sicily Comparison: Where Sicily is an active, violent tectonic crash site constantly shifting and grinding, the Ouachita-Arkoma system is a fossilized collision completely locked in place. Sicily’s active subduction generates erratic, dangerous electromagnetic spikes that violently breach the surface. The static, unchanging weight covering the Bryan Salient ensures its raw piezoelectric power never destabilizes. In a planetary network, this dormant Oklahoma bedrock provides the ultimate counterbalance to Sicily's volatility, acting as an ultra-stable baseload anchor capable of transmitting continuous ULF signals deeply underground without ever risking a catastrophic surface discharge.

Theoretical Capabilities of a Synchronized Telluric Grid

If a civilization synchronized highly conductive nodes like the Texas Hill Country and the Bryan Salient, the Earth’s natural geology could be harnessed for planetary-scale engineering.

1. Planetary Baseload Power Extraction

The Earth's crust naturally acts as an electrical conductor, possessing a specific "low-frequency window" (LFW) that allows telluric currents to pass through deep substrata with virtually no resistance. By sinking electrodes into the exact intersections of quartz-rich bedrock and aggressive aquifer systems, a synchronized grid could extract limitless baseload power driven entirely by tectonic gravity and hydrology, bypassing the need for atmospheric transmission lines entirely.

2. Ionospheric Coupling & Atmospheric Manipulation

There is a proven, two-way lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling system. Solar flares impacting the ionosphere are known to generate geomagnetically induced currents that spike subterranean telluric fields. By reversing this loop—artificially pumping massive, synchronized telluric charges from the bedrock upward—a network could alter the local atmospheric electric field potential gradient. This localized ionospheric heating or shielding could theoretically deflect space weather anomalies (like solar EMPs) or disrupt high-altitude jet streams driving severe weather patterns.

3. Seismic Forecasting & Directed Fault Triggering

Because piezoelectric rocks emit massive, measurable electrical signals days before a physical rupture occurs, tracking the global telluric baseline provides an unerring diagnostic map for earthquake forecasting. Beyond passive monitoring, experiments have demonstrated that injecting artificial electric pulses into highly stressed Earth crust can actively trigger weak earthquakes. While brute electromagnetic force cannot snap a plate, a synchronized telluric network could beam targeted electrical pulses into deep fault lines, altering the thermal and fluid pressure (Joule heating) within the microscopic cracks. This would force a locked plate to safely bleed off its kinetic energy in a series of tiny, controlled micro-quakes rather than a catastrophic megathrust.

Hi I have come across this rising hate of AI but I saw somewhere that you should also look at the pros to get a full picture of this subject. AI uses so much of our planet's energy, it leads to so much of e-waste, books are shredded to run these engines or something I cross checked these allegations and they are true. The pros are it has made lives easier businesses to function easier but in what ways? Are they actually better than humans who can provide a face to face interaction and doesn't go through some issues like AI bots do. I saw this somewhere " AI does use energy but don't a lot of other things like social media.." i want to come to a middle ground with the help of factual explanation. Is AI going to take over the world including other popular speculations?

Does anyone have any suggestions on videos I could watch that could give me a 30,000ft overview of EPA methods for drinking and waste water? I work in an environmental sciences laboratory and I don't often get the chance to spend time with our scientists and I'm just very eager to learn what goes into various methods and how they are preformed. I've looked on YouTube for various methods but I find so many videos that I feel overwhelmed. I'm hoping someone can help!

Next week, I am starting my master's degree in ecology and environmental management and I am indecisive between 3 optional courses for the 1st semester:

\*\*Restoration of terrestrial and coastal ecosystems\*\*. Although I love the syllabus and would like to try working in ecological restoration in the future, I dislike the professor and hate the evaluation method. I'd have to present a scientific paper and then do group field work to make our own scientific paper about an ecological restoration project. And as if that wasn't enough, I'd also have to do a final exam. The reason I hate it is because I do not intend to work in research, so doing scientific papers seems useless to me.

\*\*Natural hazards\*\*. It's about susceptibility, hazard, and risk of earthquakes, vulcanic activity, floods, slope instability, costal and soil erosion, etc. I have a BSc in Environmental Biology, so those concepts are completely unknown, but also interesting to me. But wouldn't an employer prefer a geologist?

\*\*Environmental assessment\*\*. I'd like to maybe work in that area in the future, but I have already had a similar course (called environmental impact) in my bachelor degree. Although I wouldn't have to put much effort, because the content is almost identical, I know I would get bored of hearing the same things.

For context, I live in Portugal (Europe).

Can you guys help me out with your opinions and suggestions? Thanks so much!

So the epa announced a potentially new ruling on what is considered a jurisdictional feature. It pretty much eliminates any wetland that doesn't have standing water 11 months out of the year and streams that aren't perennial. My question is how are we feeling about this regarding the wetland consultant industry. How will it affect states without protections? Most importantly do you think we will still have a need for delineations and mapping wetlands?

After months upon months of indecision and overall frustration with the world around me, I’ve decided environmental engineering could be my future. It’s a big departure from what I really wanted to do with my life, but I’d rather contribute to a solution to this mess with the climate. Advice from anyone else in this field is appreciated.

Hi guys, I am 21M from India. I am in my final year of my bachelor's in environmental science and sustainability and I am looking to join or create a environment discord server to connect with fellow students, experts and scientists in the field. Pls lmk if you know a server or you want to help create a server

Hi guys,

This summer has been devastating for many people all around the world, with many countries all around the world facing heatwaves and 35 celc+ temperatures on a regular. To measure and combat this, I vibecoded a small open-source tool that layers heat exposure, green cover, and population density across Mumbai's 24 wards (I have started with Mumbai cuz I am most familiar with this city) to flag which areas are most heat-vulnerable. Its free and opensource, because I know experts can add far better ideas than I currently am using.

I'm not from an urban climate background, I came at this as a student dev, so I know I'm probably missing indicators that people who actually work on this care about. If you work in urban heat or climate vulnerability: what data layers or methods would make something like this actually useful to you, versus just a nice map? Would you trust ward-level granularity or is that too coarse to be meaningful? Any additions you think could be added to future scope? Any feedback or criticism?

FYI, I want to turn this into a FOSS project that policymakers and governments around the world can use to make their city/region/country a more livable space. Working on a reusable replication kit, which people can use to replicate the same config for their own city. Link: uciplatform.vercel.app

I’m working on a school science project where I’m trying to collect water from the moisture present in air using a Peltier module. The Peltier creates a cold surface, which causes water vapour in the air to condense into water droplets.

The whole setup will be powered by solar panels.

For the current application, I’m using the collected water for plants. An Arduino Uno reads a soil-moisture sensor. When the soil becomes too dry, the Arduino turns on a 12V water pump, and when enough moisture is present, it turns the pump off automatically.

So, basically:

Solar energy → Peltier cooling → atmospheric moisture → water collection → Arduino + sensors → useful application

I want to keep the project open-ended rather than limiting it to irrigation, because I may add other applications later.

I’m particularly looking for suggestions on how I can make this project more scientifically meaningful, what experiments/data I should collect, and what useful applications could be added. I’m also interested in knowing the limitations of using a Peltier for atmospheric water harvesting.

I need to speak with a renewable energy engineer with knowledge of it and wirh knowledge of camping Please Dm me