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Community Climate Resilience Lab brings racial justice lens to climate change research

It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth. (Source: zmescience)
More than a third of the US adult population doesn't get enough sleep, and that costs the US $411 billion through the loss of 1.2 million work days each year. (Source: rand.org)
C&A team has consumed 1345 cups of coffee so far!
Black students earned 7% of STEM bachelor’s degrees for the 2017-2018 academic year, the most recent year available, smaller than their share of all bachelor’s degrees (10%). (Source: pewresearch.org)