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Environment

olar panels and wind turbines generating renewable energy for green and sustainable future

Sustainable energy

JHU researchers join push for 100% renewable energy power grids

Published Sept 18, 2023

New Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society center will collaborate with international partners to decarbonize global energy sector

Q+A

Understanding the UN report on ozone layer recovery

Published Jan 31, 2023

Assistant professor Scot Miller offers insight on the United Nations' most recent assessment of the Montreal Protocol, which offers good news on the restoration of the ozone layer

Environment

An expert look at natural resource management

Published July 23, 2021

In special feature published in 'PNAS,' Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Paul Ferraro demonstrates how sound science can help communities better manage finite resources

Climate change

What spurs people to save the planet—stories or facts?

Published April 27, 2021

A study by JHU's Paul Ferraro identifies political divide in how stories and facts work to persuade consumers to change their behaviors

Economics

An evolution of green policy

Published May 4, 2020

A recent paper by Hopkins political scientist Bentley B. Allan suggests environmental protection policies and clean technology mandates can spur economic growth

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