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Climate change

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21st Century Cities
Baltimore-area residents worry about effects of climate change on their lives
Published March 6, 2025
Survey data provides insight into how Baltimore-area residents feel about climate change
A firefighter battles a wildfire amid scorched brush
Q+A
Defense against future wildfires
Published Jan 30, 2025
Structural design and resilience expert Thomas Gernay says fire-resistant building designs are key to protecting communities from increasingly destructive wildfires
President's message
Published Winter 2024
Johns Hopkins University's reinforces its longstanding commitment to combating climate change with a new climate action and sustainability plan / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A vibrant sunrise in the beautiful natural surroundings of Orlando Wetlands Park in central Florida
Q+A
Microbes, not fossil fuels, biggest source of rising atmospheric methane levels
Published Nov 12, 2024
Hopkins expert Scot Miller discusses a new analysis challenging assumptions about the drivers of spiraling global methane levels
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Sustainability
EPA recognizes JHU as a leader in green power
Published Oct 23, 2024
University purchases 60% of its total power needs from green sources, No. 4 among U.S. colleges that are part of the EPA's Green Power Partnership
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Sustainability
First electric buses will hit the road in 2025
Published Oct 11, 2024
The first wave of five all-electric, fully accessible buses will operate on the Homewood-Peabody-JHMI shuttle route beginning early next year, with help from a $1.5M state grant
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Sustainability
Johns Hopkins releases new Climate Action and Sustainability Plan
Published Oct 11, 2024
The university's comprehensive, decadelong strategy will cut single use plastics, introduce a fully electric bus fleet, and prepare its campuses and neighbors for a warmer future
a petri dish that has a map of the world inside of it
Immunology
Outsmarting fungi
Published Fall 2024
Fungal species are wreaking havoc in unprecedented ways. Infectious disease doctor Arturo Casadevall explains why in a gripping new book. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Environmental health
California leads U.S. emissions of little-known greenhouse gas
Published April 3, 2024
The state emits more of the common pesticide sulfuryl fluoride than the rest of country combined, a JHU study finds
Sam Myers
Planetary health
New institute aims to safeguard human health on a changing planet
Published April 2, 2024
Institute for Planetary Health will bridge multiple disciplines to address how changes to Earth's environment are affecting human health