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A new climate change exhibit illustrates the link between warmer oceans and more devastating hurricanes.
A Planet In Peril Is Focus of New AMNH Exhibit BY SYDNEY PEREIRA The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) launched a permanent climate change exhibit last month, featuring an interactive wall with key information about our planet’s changing weather patterns. Interactive sections detail evidence of rising temperatures, the greenhouse gas emissions causing the temperature to rise, and the consequences of climate change with before-and-after images of natural disasters that studies have shown will intensify under a warming climate. As distinct from a previous temporary exhibit nearly a decade ago, climate change’s poster child — the polar bear — is not featured in the new exhibit, in order to focus attention on how climate change impacts people and not just the animal and plant kingdoms we share the planet with. “We wanted to shift away from the more — I don’t want to say trite, because polar bears are very important — but [shift away from] the examples that people sort of know about, but they can say, ‘Well that’s far away,’” said Rosamond Kinzler, the senior director of science education at the AMNH. Rather, the exhibit in the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth focuses on the causes of climate change and its consequences, including wildfires, drought, hurricanes, and other crises directly affecting people. “Warming climates cause an increased occurrence of extreme versions of fires and droughts and floods,” CLIMATE CHANGE continued on p. 4
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Edmonds Bafford practices his paddleboarding on weekends all year round.
BY SYDNEY PEREIRA Edmonds Bafford has been paddleboarding in the Surfers’ Environmental Alliance’s (SEA) annual 26-mile race around Manhattan since 2013. To date, he has raised some $200,000
for the group, which supports environmental causes as well as autism non-profits. On Saturday, August 11, Bafford, now a board member at the PADDLE continued on p. 20
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