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This Week in Research: Early Puberty for Boys, Rising Sea Levels, & the...
In this series, we look at the newest findings coming out of our area’s top research universities. We’ve got some great minds in Baltimore — let’s learn what they’re learning! We’ve long been panicked...
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The Bad News: Baltimore Will Be Partly Underwater; The Good News: Not as Much...
The New York Times’ interpretation of Baltimore’s new coastline, if sea levels rise 25 feet. Everything light blue is underwater. These days, Baltimore’s flooded streets are usually the fault of broken...
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How Does Your Garden Show? Snow!
When I raised the shade this morning, snow had covered the ancient boxwoods over night. A limb of the hemlock that towers above the house drooped in front of my second story window. Out another window...
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Meet Baltimore’s First Climate-Resilient Block
Photo via Vincent Purcell One argument against sustainable practices is that they’re just too expensive. It costs money to go green, or so the naysayers claim — those CFL bulbs and solar panels don’t...
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This Week in Research: Climate Change Wines
He’s not your typical climate scientist… Sure, climate change is bad, and will put all of us on the Eastern Seaboard underwater soon enough — but it may also make for some exciting new wine regions!...
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Johns Hopkins Scientist Explains Why This Winter Has Been So %*&#$ing Awful
Photo by Stephanie Hughes via Twitter Unless you’re a snowplow driver or an ice-o-philiac, this winter has probably made you miserable. But why, exactly? Luckily, there’s a climate scientist who has...
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Johns Hopkins Junior Wins Prestigious Truman Scholarship
Photo via JHU Hub Only 59 students across the nation get the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, an award given to U.S. undergraduates who demonstrate leadership potential and commitment to public service....
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Flooding Is Turning Into a Serious Problem for Baltimore
Floods cause road closure, water damage, and the kind of erosion that can destroy a block’s worth of cars in a few seconds. And lucky us, Baltimore is near the top of a National Oceanic and...
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Baltimore Without Orioles?
Photo by Patty McGann/Flickr Creative Commons Global warming isn’t just bad news for humans; it also poses dire risks for birds–including the iconic Baltimore oriole–according to a new study by the...
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Climate Change: Why the Numbers 450 and 7 Matter
from ‘Chasing Ice’ Have you ever looked back at a situation and wished you’d had some key information? Those little bits of knowledge that would probably have led to a different decision? In the hopes...
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Baltimore Had a Hot, Wet 2015
Photo via Maryland Weather Last year was Earth’s hottest on record, and Baltimore was no exception. The average temperature over the course of the year was 59 degrees Fahrenheit, a half a degree higher...
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What’s Next? The Future of Public Health
The future is the focus on June 9, 2016, for one of the most anticipated events of the Centennial year at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “What’s Next? The Future of Public...
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One of the Most Anticipated Events of the Centennial Year: What’s Next? The...
The future is the focus on June 9, 2016, for one of the most anticipated events of the Centennial year at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “What’s Next? The Future of Public...
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Maryland’s Offshore Wind Farm Moves Forward
Maryland’s offshore wind farm is planned to sit 12 miles off Ocean City’s shores. Maryland’s wind farm won’t be visible from the coastline. Credit: NREL Finally some good environmental news. Maryland’s...
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GreenLaurel: Four Ways Climate Change Is Affecting Baltimore Today
A smart bunch of oceanographers from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and others combed through 114 years of Maryland weather data. They discovered something you may already...
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Mayor Pugh, Kevin Plank, Hopkins President Pledge to Fight Climate Change...
Photo by Alfred Palmer, via Library of Congress Late last week, President Donald Trump made the unsurprising announcement that he would remove the United States from a pact with 194 other countries to...
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Pugh Joins Leaders on Climate Change: ‘We Are Still In’
Coastal flooding is expected to increase due to climate change making Inner Harbor flooding more commonplace. After President Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement last week,...
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Amid Defunding Threats, Hogan Signs Resolution Telling Trump, Congress to...
Photo by Farragutful, via Wikimedia Commons As expected, Gov. Larry Hogan today joined governors of other Chesapeake Bay region states in signing a resolution that calls on the president and federal...
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Greenlaurel: Why Baltimore City Council’s Unanimous Climate Resolution is...
Councilman Zeke Cohen surrounded by youth and environmental leaders in support of the city’s climate resolution. At first glance, the Paris Climate Agreement resolution that the Baltimore City Council...
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‘Walking in Antarctica’: Artist Helen Glazer Presents Images from Tour
A work by Helen Glazer at Goucher College’s Rosenberg Gallery this month. In 2015, artist Helen Glazer spent seven weeks exploring the Antarctic wilderness with her camera, studying ice formations and...
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