DECEMBER 2025 NEWSLETTER

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Hi all,

Some great stuff in the December OASIS Newsletter.

OASIS DECEMBER 2025 NEWSLETTER

EVENTS—Time sensitive

Climate Justice Education E-Course for K–8 Educators (January–March 2026)

BOOKS AND VIDEOS

INTERESTING WEBSITES and RESOURCES:

The Living Classroom: K-5 Curriculum that help children connect with nature and help them understand why that connection is important. Real world lessons on plants, animals, soil, ecosystems, biodiversity, and sustainability.

If you have an architecture teacher/dept at your school, you might wish to forward this from the Danish Architecture Museum

PK12 Science Curriculum: While this is California focused, there are many good ideas that could be adapted here.

The Psychology of Behavior Change to Improve School Waste Practices This webinar is part of a series:

View the resources for the first session, Behavior Change for Healthier School Environments

View the resources from the third session, Behavior Change to Advance School Climate Goals

AWARDS:

GROUPS TO JOIN:

For high school students: while this one has passed, it is monthly and your students might like to join starting in Jan. ‘26

A poster for a discussion

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National High School Climate Forum

MORE NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS:

· Stanford-led study finds that across the US, switching from a gas to electric stove would cut nitrogen dioxide exposure by over one half, reducing the risk of asthma – from Rob Jackson and Yannai Kashtan

· Measuring zoonotic disease in Kenya: Brucellosis prevalence in humans – paper feat. Desiree LaBeaud, Esra Buyukcangaz

· The future of intense heat and human mortality projections – Nature article feat. Sam Heft-Neal, Noah Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke, and Jared Trok

o Read coverage in the Stanford Report, Evidence Network, Study Finds, and Mirror UK

o More heat-related news feat. Marshall Burke in The Guardian

· Marshall Burke featured on Living on Earth podcast, “Deadly Toll of Wildfire Smoke”

· “COP30 Special Report on Climate and Health” – major report feat. contributions by Timothy Bouley

· Climate change and food security – Stanford article feat. David Lobell

· Lisa Patel hosts the Healthy Climate America podcast, “Food as Medicine: Nourishing Ourselves and the Planet” feat. Tamiko Katsumoto

· Reducing microplastic exposure – The Epoch Times article feat. Desiree LaBeaud

· The physical effects of ingested plastic in marine animals – feat. Matthew Savoca

· The link between lead poisoning in Nigeria and the US auto industry – and how car and battery manufacturers have blocked attempted solutions

· Five key takeaways from a divisive COP30

· More from COP30: how climate negotiations centered health and explored the economics of climate-health policy

· One Health frameworks need Indigenous voices in formal health negotiations and policy

· Extreme temperatures and kidney failure in migrant workers around the globe

· Protecting the displaced: climate solutions for refugees, migrants, and their hosts

· The human and environmental health impacts of reducing food waste

· Measuring zoonotic disease in Kenya: Brucellosis prevalence in humans – paper feat. Desiree LaBeaud, Esra Buyukcangaz

· The future of intense heat and human mortality projections – Nature article feat. Sam Heft-Neal, Noah Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke, and Jared Trok

o Read coverage in the Stanford Report, Evidence Network, Study Finds, and Mirror UK

o More heat-related news feat. Marshall Burke in The Guardian

· Marshall Burke featured on Living on Earth podcast, “Deadly Toll of Wildfire Smoke”

· “COP30 Special Report on Climate and Health” – major report feat. contributions by Timothy Bouley

· Climate change and food security – Stanford article feat. David Lobell

· Lisa Patel hosts the Healthy Climate America podcast, “Food as Medicine: Nourishing Ourselves and the Planet” feat. Tamiko Katsumoto

· Reducing microplastic exposure – The Epoch Times article feat. Desiree LaBeaud

· The physical effects of ingested plastic in marine animals – feat. Matthew Savoca

· The link between lead poisoning in Nigeria and the US auto industry – and how car and battery manufacturers have blocked attempted solutions

· Five key takeaways from a divisive COP30

· More from COP30: how climate negotiations centered health and explored the economics of climate-health policy

· One Health frameworks need Indigenous voices in formal health negotiations and policy

· Extreme temperatures and kidney failure in migrant workers around the globe

· Protecting the displaced: climate solutions for refugees, migrants, and their hosts

· The human and environmental health impacts of reducing food waste

· The EPA erases mentions of human-caused climate change on website

· Opportunities for Environmental Impact Assessments in professional healthcare

· Climate change drives “creeping-catastrophe” with rise in infectious diseases

· Five potential effects of microplastics on the brain

· Survivors of Philippine typhoon file a landmark climate claim against Shell

· COP30 launches new action plan and global coalition to unite climate, health, and medicine

· “50 States, 50 Fixes.” – climate solutions across the United States

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