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Penn faculty gather to build collaborations on extreme heat

In a Q&A about their new book “Megaregions and America’s Future,” Dean Frederick Steiner (left) and Emeritus Professor of Practice Robert Yaro of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design discuss how megaregions in the U.S. can address complex challenges.

Climate resilience, economic competitiveness, and equity at the megaregional level

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Faced with an onslaught of changes—heat, drought, fire, flood, pests, and disease—forests are under stress.

The future of forests

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Today the Delaware River in Philadelphia is a site for both recreation and industry. Provisions in the Clean Water Act, passed by Congress a half-century ago, changed the “life history” of many waterways such as this one, Penn experts note.

The Clean Water Act at 50

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On a given night Quaker Kitchen serves as many as 200 meals like the Earth Week meal, which included pea puree, pasta carbonara, mushrooms, carrots, and sustainably sourced salmon. “The big message is, if you’re interested in climate change, the choice you make at your dinner table has a big impact,” says Barbara Lea-Kruger, director of communications and external relations for Penn’s Division of Business Services.

A farm-to-table meal at Penn, in photos

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Island ambassadors to the United Nations speak at the Perry World House Global Shifts Colloquium event moderated by Michael Weisberg (fourth from left).

Islands on the climate front line

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Receding Arctic sea ice, as seen from space. (Image: NASA/Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio)

Facing climate change with optimism

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Coeur-Rochester gold mine in Nevada

Prioritizing environmental justice while capturing carbon from the air

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Scott Moore, director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives, pictured along Locust Walk.

Can China stop climate change?

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US county map of total number of extreme-heat days and mean, summer, monthly cardiovascular mortality rates from 2008 to 2017. Image: Penn LDI

Taking Extreme Heat to Heart: Climate Change’s Impact on Cardiovascular Mortality

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With the decision in West Virginia v. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , the Supreme Court ruled to limit the EPA’s capacity to regulate power plant emissions under the Clean Air Act. The move hamstrings efforts by the federal government to regulate a major contributor to climate change.

The Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s power to curb climate change

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Penn Carey Law’s Cary Coglianese and Allison Hoffman. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Law News)

Penn Law reactions to SCOTUS EPA ruling on climate change

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As part of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities’ Ecotopian Toolkit Project, a “kitbashing” workshop held at the Independence Seaport Museum gave museum visitors an opportunity to imagine and then build structures for a future of higher sea levels and disrupted ecosystems. Juan Hurtado Salazar (standing, in black shirt) was one of five artists and makers supported by the initiative. Among the workshop’s participants was PPEH Founding Director Bethany Wiggin (seated, far right).

Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future

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In June, Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences joined with 10 Philadelphia high school teachers to incorporate climate into their curricula. (Image: Courtesy of Mia D’Avanza and Bethany Wiggin)

Partnering with Philadelphia teachers to inspire climate action

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Mass extinction, represented here by ranges once roamed by now-extinct species, is one strand of Field Notes Towards an Internationalist Green New Deal. (Image: Weitzman News)

Student-led project takes a global view of the Green New Deal

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Photo of Sarah Sterinbach on urban rooftop.

Combating urban heat

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President Joe Biden hands the pen he used to sign the Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act

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