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Environmental health

Walled off

Published Summer 2025

In 'Something Between Us,' anthropologist Anand Pandian explores the walls that divide America / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Hammerhead shark (Sphyrnidae) swimming in tropical underwaters. 3d illustration rendering

With pay-to-release fish conservation, there's a catch

Published May 15, 2025

Programs promising to save endangered species of sharks and other fish by incentivizing their release may be backfiring, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins and Oxford University

An aerial view of South Baltimore's Curtis Bay industrial area

Research matters

Researchers address community health concerns

Published Feb 14, 2025

With NIH support, JHU researchers work with communities to determine how pollutants and other environmental factors affect human biology and may lead to disease

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

Omar Lloyd carries flats of grass plants while working on installing the Harbor Wetlands exhibit

Environmental science

Alum helps harbor wetland flourish

Published Aug 12, 2024

Omar Lloyd, A&S '20, helped the National Aquarium bring a tidal salt marsh back to the Inner Harbor

Three men stand in an underground tunnel in 1907. A note written on the image reads "183 Nov-12-07."

Baltimore history

The ghost river under Homewood

Published July 15, 2024

A public installation by local artist Bruce Willen traces a buried stream, which used to define the North Baltimore landscape, which now includes the university's 140-acre campus