PLANET

By exploring this UN SDG theme learners will better understand the need to to protect our ecosystems for all societies and our children

​Click here for a complete list of all 17 UN SDGs.

 

Fires set by farmers to clear land for agriculture in the Amazon Rainforest.

GOAL 3 GOAL 13
GOAL 12 GOAL 15

Sediment plume shows where the waters of Calcasieu Channel, LA  enter the Gulf of Mexico.

GOAL 3 GOAL 9
GOAL 6 GOAL 12
GOAL 7 GOAL 14

Hurricane Florence approaches the Carolina coast in September, 2018.

GOAL 3 GOAL 13
GOAL 11 GOAL 14

Surprisingly benign events trigger some of the worst conflagrations in California's 2018 wildfire season.

GOAL 3 GOAL 13
GOAL 11 GOAL 15
GOAL 12

Overfishing and climate change impact the cod fisheries off the New England coast.

GOAL 2 GOAL 12
GOAL 3 GOAL 13
GOAL 8 GOAL 14
GOAL 11

Coastal cities like Boston are planning ahead as global warming causes sea levels to rise.

GOAL 9 GOAL 14
GOAL 11 GOAL 15
GOAL 12 GOAL 17
GOAL 13

Humanity's addiction to fossil fuels threatens wildlife in the Florida Keys, both on land and in the sea.

GOAL 2 GOAL 13
GOAL 3 GOAL 14
GOAL 6 GOAL 15
GOAL 12

Increasing glacial melt rates account for 2% of total sea level rise worldwide.

GOAL 12
GOAL 13
GOAL 14

San Francisco Bay faces a multitude of environmental threats - some local, and some from distant ports.

GOAL 3 GOAL 13
GOAL 6 GOAL 14
GOAL 7 GOAL 15
GOAL 12