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Climate change

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
Anna Scott holds one of the sensor cubes, a white box with black grates for air intake
Climate science
Breathing easier
Published June 27, 2017
Project launched by JHU grad student records Baltimore air quality data for use by researchers, policymakers
Climate change
Hopkins reaffirms commitment to tenets of Paris accord
Published June 5, 2017
In statement, JHU's Daniels and 11 other university presidents say 'concerted action' needed on climate change
Commentary
Sweeping impacts of Paris accord withdrawal
Published June 2, 2017
Faculty experts analyze what the move means for the world's poor, national security, and foreign relations
Q+A
Expert: 'Unimaginable' impact from EPA cuts
Published March 17, 2017
School of Public Health's Tom Burke served as EPA science adviser, deputy assistant administrator
Commentary
The free market and climate science
Published Dec 30, 2016
BDP Paul Ferraro argues that people who believe in the free market should also believe in man-made climate change / Bloomberg View
Environmental health
Scientists wary of coming climate policy shift
Published Dec 8, 2016
Experts discuss what Trump's global warming skepticism, pledge to revive coal mean for environmental, public health