Explainers

blue green mapping of environmental factors in region

Environmental Hazards and Public Health

Environmental Innovations Initiative

Sun shades attached to building windows.

What’s That? Sun shades at the Vagelos Lab

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colorful clothes hang on a rack

Fast fashion

Environmental Innovations Initiative

Person points to computer project reading machine learning, AI

AI and environmental challenges

Environmental Innovations Initiative

“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you live; everybody wears clothing or some sort of embellishment,” says Jacqui Sadashige. “For most of us, what we wear is our way of announcing to the world who we are.” (Image: Charlota Blunarova on Unsplash)

Fashioning gender

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Open-pit mines like the one seen here generate millions of tons of waste each year. Researchers in the Clean Energy Conversions Lab are working on technologies that could turn this waste into carbon-storing rocks, potentially keeping a substantial amount of CO2 out of the atmosphere. (Image: Peter Psarras)

Turning carbon emissions into rocks

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Whitehouse joined scientists Michael Mann and Joseph Francisco in a panel on political dark money moderated by Kathleen Morrison. (From left to right: Michael Mann, Sheldon Whitehouse, Joseph Francisco, and Kathleen Morrison)

How dark money fuels climate denialism

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Penn researchers say that there are more sustainable alternatives to eucalyptus plantation and charcoal production sites like this one in Kyegaliro, Uganda. (Image: Courtesy of Catherine Nabukalu).

Where does charcoal come from—and is it sustainable?

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