Provo, Logan and Salt Lake City, Utah were each recently designated as nonattainment areas by the Environmental Protection Agency due to their consistently poor air quality. The EPA determines non-attainment designation when an area repeatedly breaches the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. This happens when particles associated with smoke or other combustion products small.
Friends, colleagues, and former students of poet, author and university lecturer Jennifer Rahim continue to mourn her sudden death on March 13. They said her work and influence will continue to resonate with them. The UWI St Augustine Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies joined the entire university community and the region in mourning
Here we go again! In the Business Guardian of Thursday 8 April 2021, Joel Julien reports on the virtual Demas/Rampersad Seminar Series under the aegis of The UWI St Augustine Department of Economic
Prof John Agard calls for quicker action on cutting carbon emissions
Thursday 10 December 2020
In this 2017 fil photo, the effects of an oil spill can be seen along the shore in Chaguaramas. TT’s climate manoeuvrability is awkward because the economy is based on fossil fuels but as a small island developing state (SIDS) the country is uniquely susceptible to the ravages of climate change. - FILE PHOTO: ANGELO MARCELLE
When he was younger, John Agard’s parents wanted him to be something practical – like a doctor. Instead – long before it was cool – he felt a visceral pull towards studying the environment. “Even as a boy my parents told me do medicine. But I was very passionate about environmental issues. I had opportunities to go to the UK and do all kinds of other things but I said no, it was really the environment I was passionate about,” he told Business Day recently.