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Climate change

Ruth Kassinger
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
Dump truck driving at coal mine
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
A fire fighter battles a forest fire
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
Hurricane as seen from NASA satellites
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
Glacier and mountain
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
Sustainability
JHU to divest holdings in thermal coal
Published Dec 12, 2017
Board votes to eliminate investments in fossil fuel that contributes more climate-changing greenhouse gases per unit of electricity than any other
A young boy sits over an open sewer in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. The sewer is filled with trash and debris. The ground is packed dirt.
Global warming's disproportionate impact
Published Nov 6, 2017
Effects of climate change likely to be more deadly in poor, urban African settlements
Al Gore stands in a small wooden building and speaks to two people
Al Gore: Students can play 'huge part' in today's climate movement
Published Oct 27, 2017
Students watch follow-up to 'An Inconvenient Truth,' participate in live Q&A with former vice president
VIDEO
What Irma tells us about future hurricanes
Published Sept 8, 2017 Video
Climate modeler Anand Gnanadesikan forecasts hurricanes will become less common, more intense
City skyline silhouetted by blazing orange and yellow summer sun
Public health
3 proposals earn BAHI seed grants
Published Aug 10, 2017
Bloomberg American Health Initiative support projects addressing climate change, sexual assault