A world without the Amazon? Safeguarding the Earth’s largest rainforest focus of Princeton conference
October 23, 2019 ・ Pooja MakhijaniThe Amazon is the world’s largest and most diverse tropical forest and the ancestral home of over 1 million indigenous peoples. How to preserve it was the centrally urgent theme at a conference at Princeton on Oct. 17-18. “Safeguarding the…
Back-to-back heat waves likely to accelerate with climate change
May 8, 2019 ・ Joseph AlbaneseAs the planet continues to warm, multi-day heat waves are projected to increase in frequency, length and intensity. The additive effects of these extreme heat events overwhelm emergency service providers and hospital staff with heat-related maladies, disrupt the electrical grid…
Discerning Experts: Michael Oppenheimer on improving environmental policy
February 22, 2019 ・ B. Rose KellyGovernments around the world rely on scientific assessments to guide environmental policy and action. Yet, these assessments, like those produced by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other organizations, can sometimes exhibit limitations, especially scientific bias and errors…
Environmentalist McKibben discusses art’s impact on climate action
October 26, 2018 ・ Denise ValentiArt — painting and photography, in particular — has played an important role in building a romantic narrative of United States history. It also has the potential to inspire people to protect the very wilderness that has been destroyed in…
Half a degree more global warming could flood out 5 million more people
March 15, 2018 ・ Liz Fuller-WrightThe difference between an increase of 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius in the global temperature could mean the inundation of lands currently home to about 5 million people.
By 2100, arid cities will suffer from more severe heat waves than temperate cities
February 15, 2018 ・ B. Rose KellyIn a reversal of current conditions, by 2100, arid cities such as Phoenix will become more susceptible to heatwaves compared to their surrounding rural areas, while cities on the eastern seaboard will actually be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs.
PEI-STEP Fellow Jane Baldwin receives AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award
February 12, 2018PEI-STEP fellow Jane Baldwin received an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the American Geophysical Union’s 2017 Fall Meeting.
Leaks will not sink carbon capture and storage
September 5, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyA Princeton study found that carbon capture and storage may not be as prone to leakage, or high costs related to fixing leaks, as previously thought.
Climate change to damage U.S. economy, increase inequality
June 29, 2017 ・ The Office of CommunicationsUnmitigated climate change could make the United States poorer and more unequal, with the poorest counties losing as much as 20 percent of their income by the end of the century.
