Penn biologists reveal how plants respond to seasonal flowering cues while protecting the stem cells at their growing tip, enabling continuous reproduction in changing environments.

When 35 students from five Penn schools analyzed real DOE industrial decarbonization projects, they discovered that net zero is a systems challenge requiring fluency across disciplines.

Daria Haner, C’26, is first author on a paper indicating that organizational longevity and environmental sustainability go hand in hand.

Trained in both physics and literature, Barri Joyce Gold, Professor of Practice in English and an inaugural Senior Fellow in Penn’s Environmental Innovations Initiative, studies the development of energy concepts and ecological discourse.

As part of the new Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence collaboration, The Water Center at Penn is helping answer key questions around technology and sustainability.

The Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology has achieved the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest standard, a rare distinction and just the second Penn building to do so.

With the help of five Penn undergrads, Professor of Biology Dustin Brisson’s research group collected some 9,000 tick specimens this summer. They’re trying to understand how seasonal activity patterns of these arachnids affects human pathogens and what role a changing climate might play.

In today’s financial markets, companies that claim to be "green" are rewarded. Joseph Huang, Gr'24, finds that larger companies and those in decline don’t excel at reducing emissions; they excel at managing appearances.

People living on small islands and territories face mounting climate impacts, but little is known about their stance on the issue. Research from a team including Parrish Bergquist, Assistant Professor of Political Science, aims to fill those gaps.

Kolby Kaller, C’20, is spending 10 months on Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific, using a Fulbright research grant to look at digital preservation systems for Indigenous and local knowledge.

Research from Professor Michael Mann and PhD students Annabelle Horton and Mackenzie Weaver shows that as the worst of these East Coast winter storms intensify, so does their destructive potential—a facet that current coastal risk assessments often ignore.

A collaborative study from researchers affiliated with the Annenberg School for Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, and School of Arts & Sciences tested 17 strategies in an ‘intervention tournament.’

Lillian Miller, C'25, will begin graduate studies in the laboratory of Irina Marinov this summer, where she is leveraging big data to tackle ocean and climate-focused research.

Research from PhD student Nazar Khalid, Professors Emily Hannum and Jere Behrman, and Senior Lecturer Amrit Thapa investigates how more intensive and frequent flooding is affecting young students in the country’s rural north.

The opening of the 112,500-square-foot space—now home to the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology—marks the start of a new chapter in Penn’s study of energy science and the fight against climate change.

Solving the complex challenge that is climate change requires breadth in approach. Penn Arts & Sciences is positioned to lead.

Tiny tire particles discharge into the environment every time a vehicle brakes, accelerates, or rounds a curve. In a UN brief, geochemist Reto Gieré and colleagues aim to educate the world about this lesser-known environmental obstacle.

Joey Wu, C’25, thinks the way to do it is by sharing stories of hope, and he launched the nonprofit Waterroots for this purpose.

This year’s experts, who spoke during Climate Week at Penn, touched on climate policy, the role of plants in helping solve this challenge, building a utopia through “radical hope,” and more.

The Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center aims to enhance plant development and fortitude in the face of climate change.

Mark Trodden, Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Physics and Astronomy, explains the School’s multi-pronged approach to what he calls the “massive, generational issue” of our time.

Teresa Giménez, Director of the Spanish Language Program and Lecturer in Foreign Languages, discusses the tensions at play when considering this type of growth in Latin America.

The rising frequency and devastation of weather disasters is imperiling U.S. home ownership, says Solemei Scamaroni, C'25. This means that climate change is gutting home values and driving up insurance costs.

Over a decade, researchers from Penn studied coral species in Hawaii to better understand their adaptability to the effects of climate change.

Within the Department of Biology, the self-described “plant group” is employing cutting-edge techniques to explore everything from cancer and developmental biology to how agricultural crops might withstand a changing climate.

Faculty from Penn Arts & Sciences are confronting the climate crisis and contributing to solutions. They say there’s still time to act.