Public Scholarship

  • Heated Rivalries: Covering Sport in a Warming World

    Powered by The Television Academy and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), this session explores how sports media can navigate extreme heat effects on athletes, and bring that context into responsible, live coverage.

    Check It Out
  • 2026 In Trends According to Carolina Experts

    2026 In Trends According to Carolina Experts

    UNC-Chapel Hill experts are available to help reporters interpret the forces most likely to shape 2026.

    Check It Out

  • The Future of Sports: Protecting Athletes amid New Climate Realities

    Program news from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine on the role of climate change in athletic communities (2024).

    Check It Out
  • Divers for Climate Report Cover

    Divers for Climate National Policy Agenda

    A report by Divers for Climate in collaboration with research partners designed to inform future climate engagement strategies that reflect the voices of those on the front lines of Australia’s oceans.

    Check it Out
  • Sports for Nature Setting a Baseline handbook cover

    Sports for Nature Setting a Baseline Handbook

    Developed by the UN Environment Programme with the support of the International Olympic Committee, Loughborough University, and GRID Arendal

    Check it out
  • Sport Ecology Group Reading List cover photo

    The Fourth Annual Sport Ecology Group Readig List

    Resources for teachers and scholars written, edited, and compiled by the Sport Ecology Group membership (2022)

    Check it out
  • Many young athletes spend hours in the hot sun every day. Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

    Heat Risk and Young Athletes

    Rising temperatures lead to lawsuits and environmental injustice (The Conversation)

    Check it out
  • SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 23: ECS fans present their flags during a MSL match on June 23, 2021 between Real Salt Lake and the Seattle Sounders at Lumen Field in Seattle, WA. (Photo by Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

    Sport and Environmental Justice

    Why the Impact of Climate Change on Sport Is an Environmental Justice Problem (Global Sport Matters)

    Check it out

  • Texas A&M Athletics Sustainability Master Plan

    Texas A&M Athletics develops and publishes the 12th Man Athletics Sustainability Master Plan (ASMP) becoming the first collegiate athletic department in the U.S. to embark on such an effort.

    Check it out
  • NBC Sports logo

    Is FIFA fulfilling its sustainability promise to combat hefty World Cup costs?

    NBC Los Angeles explores the environmental impact of the FIFA World Cup (July, 2023)

    Check it out