Kristin Ziv

May 19, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Kristin Ziv |Christopher D. Elvidge |Morgan D. Bazilian

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail Zhizhin, Kristin Ziv, Christopher Elvidge, and Morgan Bazilian May 19, 2024 Background A horrible full-scale civil war in Sudan is creating chaos, anarchy, mass starvation, and the world’s largest population of internal refugees – approximately nine million. Still, this devastation, and the complex transnational suffering in the region, are terribly underreported in the United States. The recent fighting between the Sudanese Armed...

May 16, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Kristin Ziv |Christopher D. Elvidge |Morgan D. Bazilian

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail Zhizhin, Kristin Ziv, Christopher Elvidge, and Morgan Bazilian May 16, 2024 On the heels of one of the worst Canadian wildfire seasons on record last year, the 2024 season is off to an ominous start. As of May 14, 2024, there are 143 active wildfires in Canada, and 39 are out of control, according to Canadian experts and officials. In the U.S., plumes of smoke from Canada have wafted over large portions of the upper Midwest, Montana,...

Mar 22, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Kristin Ziv |Morgan D. Bazilian |Juliana Reid |Isabel Guajardo Retamales

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Kristin Ziv, Isabel Guajardo Retamales, and Morgan D. Bazilian March 25, 2024 On March 20, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) convened a pivotal hearing titled “Examining PFAS as Hazardous Substances.” The session focused on the risks associated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of synthetic chemicals found in various industrial and consumer products. The hearing shed light on the need for...

Mar 22, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Kristin Ziv |Isabel Guajardo Retamales |Morgan D. Bazilian |Juliana Reid

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Kristin Ziv, Isabel Guajardo Retamales, and Morgan D. Bazilian March 25, 2024 On March 20, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) convened a pivotal hearing titled “Examining PFAS as Hazardous Substances.” The session focused on the risks associated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of synthetic chemicals found in various industrial and consumer products. The hearing shed light on the need for...

Feb 16, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Kristin Ziv |Morgan D. Bazilian |Juliana Reid

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail Zhizhin, Kristin Ziv, and Morgan Bazilian February 16, 2024 With images picked up by its VIIRS Nightfire satellites, the Earth Observation Group at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines, was able to confirm several of the recent Ukrainian drone attacks on oil and gas infrastructure in Russia that have occurred over the past several weeks. On Thursday, another Ukrainian drone hit an oil depot in Russia’s Kursk...