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Climate change

A deadly fungus is spreading from person to person. Is climate change to blame?

Published July 25, 2019

Higher global temperatures may have caused a disease-causing fungus to adapt to the higher core temperatures of mammals—including humans

Green all over

Published Summer 2019

In 'Slime,' author Ruth Kassinger gives life-sustaining, omnipresent—and sometimes villainous—algae their long overdue star turn / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Climate change

China fails to curb coal mine emissions

Published Jan 29, 2019

Despite tough regulations on coal mine emissions, methane levels increased each year from 2010 to 2015, study finds

Q+A

New climate report 'an immediate call to action'

Published Nov 28, 2018

Environmental engineer Ben Hobbs discusses the newly released National Climate Assessment report

Climate change, superstorms, and civil engineering

Published Sept 13, 2018

Two Hopkins engineers discuss the critical importance of shoring up America's infrastructure to protect from storms like Florence

Microbiology

Microbes go dark to stay warm in cooler climates

Published Aug 2, 2018

Microbes and fungi that darken when in colder climates have better survival and may be an important variable in modeling climate change, researchers find