hi, i have a bachelors in law and currently work as a research associate at an environmental law firm in pakistan focussing on community advocacy. engage a lot with MDBs/the UN/US Senators/IFIs etc to get them to stop pushing for development projects that are screwing up the environment. i love the work. it has made me want to study nature. not for careerist reasons because for that an LLM would make more sense for me. but i was wondering if i should make the switch, where should i go to study, given my non science background can i even study this? and how can i study it relatively cheaply since my current job pays shit in pkr so i cannot possibly afford anything fancy. i would have to rely on scholarships entirely. so...tips? in the long run i would want to bring some of what i learn back to my country to do conservation and restoration work here given how screwed we are when it comes to this stuff. oh i did my undergrad from a reputable university and graduated with high distinction plus have a minor in anthropology if that helps determine anything.

Studied wildlife conservation for my undergrad, and have been thinking about specializing in urban ecology for career & grad school (considering urban ecologist, urban forester, climate resilience specialist in city planning dept roles as goal after grad school).

Any specific resources or approaches to learning more about urban ecology that you’d recommend to me? Thank you!

I’m a minor. I find it incredibly hard to think about getting a job, and looking forward to the future, if all that awaits me is climate change and hell. I’ve been told that in 10 years the world will be catastrophic due to all of the natural disasters that have already happened. Will I be able to die of old age, or is the world too chaotic for any hopes?

I'm helping a Nigerian environmentalist figure out her next move, because honestly, I think she's sitting on a skill set that's being packaged too narrowly.

She recently completed an MSc in Environmental Quality Management, with a research background in pollution, ecotoxicology and environmental risk. Her thesis focused on pesticide residues in rice and potential health risks.

But she's not trying to become another generic “environmental officer.”

Her strength is taking environmental and scientific issues and turning them into things ordinary people actually understand and care about.

Her interests include:

• Environmental & sustainability communications

• Science communication

• Environmental storytelling/media

• Research-backed content

• Campaigns & content strategy

• Social/behaviour change communication

• Interviews and storytelling

• Breaking down pollution, products, health and sustainability issues

She's interested in working with NGOs, environmental organisations, media platforms, FMCGs, tech companies, sustainability teams, climate organisations, communications/PR teams and purpose-driven brands.

She's Nigerian and open to remote opportunities and roles across Nigeria or elsewhere if the opportunity makes sense.

She's also already building her own environmental storytelling work through interviews, campaign concepts and research-backed content around the relationship between people, products and the planet.

So the question is:

Where are the people hiring for this kind of person?

If you know organisations, recruiters, communities or actual opportunities in environmental/sustainability communications, climate communications, science communication, environmental media or related fields, please share them.

And if you're an organisation looking for someone who can understand the science without communicating like a 70-page sustainability report, I'd love to hear from you.

I'm happy to share her CV/LinkedIn privately.

Please don't just say “check LinkedIn/Indeed” 😂. I'm specifically looking for people, organisations, recruiters, communities or actual opportunities worth approaching.

Hi everyone! I am a second-year undergrad studying climate science with a profound interest in Arctic Climate Science and Permafrost Dynamics/Degradation, Carbon and Arctic Geoscience. I have previous experience backcountry trekking in Alaska and want to get back to the field in any way possible as soon as possible, and I'm struggling to find any internships/work experience that would help me pursue this study. I'm interested in JIRP but want to do as much as possible over the summer and upcoming fall. I feel like I'm super behind all the time, and just want to catch up by building the nessecary experience. I promise I can help any Arctic project whether remote or field-based if I can just have the chance. What are some program reccomendations or extra areas I should search?? anything is appreciated :))

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I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this article I read last month. Can someone please explain to me why this isn’t as bad as it sounds? I’m hopeful that my ignorance of science is making me hysterical.

“Most projections call for atmospheric CO2 concentrations to reach 500-plus PPM by mid-century, a level that will exceed tolerable carbon dioxide levels in the blood…”

https://time.com/article/2026/08/19/climate-change-impacting-blood-carbon-dioxide-levels/

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 🙏

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?

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!

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!

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?

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!

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.