Astronomy students, educators, & scientists addressing the climate crisis from the astronomical perspective. Join the conversation with #Astro4Earth!
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ALT Picture of a newspaper page, showing an article with the title 'Training Their Sights on Earth' unterneath a picture of a female astronomer standing in the remains of an observatory that was destroyed by a wildfire. The brief synopsis reads: A growing number of astronomers, alarmed by climate change, are using their expertise to fight the crisis.
ALT Picture of scientist Andrea Gokus who led the study mentioned in the post. A quote of her is shown in the picture as well, reading "Making scientific collaboration more sustainable and more inclusive can go hand in hand. Bute we have to work together as a community to do so."
ALT Screenshot of the header from the published paper in the journal PNAS Nexus. The title of the paper is "Astronomy's climate emissions: Global travel to scientific meetings in 2019". The authors are, in the order of the author list: Andrea Gokus, Knud Jahnke, Paul M. Woods, Vanessa A. Moss, Volker Ossenkopf-Okada, Elena Sacchi, Adam R. H. Stevens, Leonard Burtscher, Cenk Kayhan, Hannah Dalgleish, Victoria Grinberg, Travis Rector, Jan Rybizki, and Jacob White.
ALT Screenshot of the letter. Machine-readable version will be added asap.
ALT Screenshot of the letter (page 2). Machine-readable version will be added asap.