Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Existing global environmental governance institutions – even those designed to address climate change – are ill-equipped for such challenges. The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science. Rather we need new interdisciplinary research programs focused specifically on tipping-point governance.

Government

Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One day, she asked a young girl what she knew about climate change. The child’s caretaker jumped in to say, “Oh no — we don’t talk about climate change.”. How can we talk about climate change in an accessible way for children? Climate change is something that’s scary for parents and scary for me as well.

Environmental Science

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 21, 2021

As a researcher at the Academy of Natural Sciences, I am a strong supporter of protecting natural areas and the importance of biodiversity for its own sake. This week, the International Panel on Climate Change and?Intergovernmental Two billion!!

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

More than 100 student delegates will converge at Drexel University to draft the United States’ contribution to the Global Youth Statement that will be submitted at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). s Climate Change Conference. 23 through Sunday, Sept. 23 through Sunday, Sept.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 12, 2021

Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University have partnered with the City of Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and other local organizations to create a new and unique collaboration to develop ways to make the Philadelphia region more climate resilient.

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University recently launched the Museum Innovation Fund to provide seed funding to Drexel faculty and students for projects that promote conception and rapid prototyping of innovative approaches to museum learning and engagement. Exploring Global Climate Change and Advocacy through Film.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 21, 2022

I am pleased to announce the awardees of The Environmental Collaboratory’s Inaugural Research Grant, promoting transdisciplinary research innovation through participatory climate and environmental problem solving. Environmental Protection Agency. Please visit the Provost’s Office website for more detailed project descriptions.

Air Pollution

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is a stark portrayal of the human condition within the context of climate change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 11, 2024

See “Freedom Hill” on Saturday, April 20, at the Academy of Natural Sciences as part of the inaugural film festival, Confluence: Earthly Films for Philadelphia. Instead of the anger being the fuel, it is the love and joy and appreciation of the resilience of the community that fuels me,” Resita said. It will be shown during the 5 p.m.

Sea Level

Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Accelerated climate change and biodiversity loss, both driven by human activities, are threatening nature and people’s lives and livelihoods around the world. Both regions are increasingly fragmented, and there needs to be big uniform patches of green conserved in both regions if we want these species to succeed.”.

Deforestation

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 1, 2022

I worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences for two of my co-ops and at the Philadelphia International Airport as an environmental engineering intern for one of my co-ops. Ultimately, I want to work with climate resiliency and environmental justice. I currently work at the Academy of Natural Sciences in the Live Animal Center.

Environmental Science

Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Drexel University, in partnership with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University , has launched a new platform, The Environmental Collaboratory , focused on climate change, environmental justice and human wellbeing.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) While increased infrastructure flooding is a major concern in urban areas, riverine and coastal flooding are also exacerbated by development and likely to be amplified by climate change.

Sea Level

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 29, 2021

The impacts of climate change are neither theoretical nor abstract. By Scott Cooper, PhD, President and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. They are real, they are happening now, and they will affect most people on the planet. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is on view at the Academy May 1-Oct.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

With increasing temperatures, global warming and climate change are only become more concerning and immediate. As a result,transitioning away from carbon-intensive sources of energy is critical to address the climate crisis (Hernandez and Newell 2022). In Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies (pp.

2023

Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As they move through the sky and land on tree branches, telephone wires and roof eaves, they provide a momentary sense of delight — an accessible way for everyone to connect with the natural world, even in highly urbanized areas such as Philadelphia. A new exhibition opening Saturday, Feb.

Natural Sciences

Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Much of this work falls within the natural sciences. Twelve years later, this seems only more so.

Carbon Dioxide

Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The more we know, the better we can understand local and visiting birds and the challenges they face from harsh weather, loss of habitat, climate change, predation and collisions. Set up a feeder and join the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Project FeederWatch. Have an unknown visitor?

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 18, 2022

As a permanent observer to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change’s annual Conference of Parties (COP), Drexel sent a delegation of students, faculty and professional staff to Glasgow for the COP26 conference. Goal #4: Engage the Community Through Public-Facing Climate and Sustainability Programming.

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 27, 2021

She will be joined by NBC 10 Meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz; Julia Rockwell, manager of the Climate Change Adaptation Program, Philadelphia Water Department; and Mark Sabaj, collection manager of fishes at the Academy. Thursday, July 29. The event is free and available on Zoom.

Cooling

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 6, 2023

While attending Drexel, I’ve had many environmental science fieldwork experiences, like catching treefrogs in the Pine Barrens or doing electrofishing surveys. In the past, I have had co-ops at the Live Animal Center of the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Philadelphia Zoo.

Environmental Science

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2024

In this newest update, many Philadelphia residents have moved into a warmer half zone, reflecting changing environmental realities. Natural history collections, like those at the Academy of Natural Sciences, help us understand these changes. An herbarium is a collection of pressed plant specimens.

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 12, 2023

Daouda Njie/ANS Since graduating last year, Njie has been working as a field technician and curatorial assistant at the Academy of Natural Sciences, where his work has included traveling to salt marshes to measure salinity and track sea level rise — key indicators of the ways climate change is affecting these coastal ecosystems.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Roland Wall , leader of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Science’s work on the DRWI and one of the original planners of the project, will outline how the DRWI has progressed and grown. In the past 24 years, Wall has worked in a variety of positions for the Academy of Natural Sciences.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The analysis — detailed in an interactive ArcGIS StoryMap titled Citywide Heat Ride — may inform future urban forestry and equitable conservation projects, including the Philly Tree Plan , to better protect Philadelphians from dangerous heat waves and extreme weather events made worse by climate change.

Conservation

Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 21, 2023

The Academy, in partnership with Mural Arts Philadelphia , has commissioned Kim to create a new mural for Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood, reflecting local concerns related to biodiversity loss and climate change.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On February 13, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Acting Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced that $290,734 in Wild Resource Conservation Program grants have been awarded to eight projects aimed at protecting Pennsylvania’s native biodiversity.

Conservation

Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 4, 2022

Previously, I worked as a Fulbright Study/Research Fellow with the Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research at the Finnish Museum of Natural History of University of Helsinki and received my bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the BEES Department at Drexel University. Tell us more about yourself. .

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 11, 2024

The Academy of Natural Sciences has been a part of the Drexel community for over a decade. I’ve done multiple projects in the past few years for my fashion classes that are natural science based, such as my two collections ‘Oceania’ and ‘Insectum’ which are inspired by marine life and monarch butterflies, respectively.

Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Over 130 delegates from across the country came together on the weekend of September 23 for America’s first ever Local Conference of Youth (LCOY USA), hosted at Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. LCOY organizers also traveled to Washington D.C. Led by youth, for youth.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 6, 2024

Through our world-class collections and innovative science, Academy scientists have been hard at work reconstructing evolutionary patterns that will then help shape ongoing critical conversations about climate change, biodiversity loss and conservation.

Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 13, 2023

As the oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere, the Academy of Natural Sciences’ affiliation with Drexel University is a relatively new part of its history — the partnership was formed in 2011, nearly 200 years after its 1812 founding. David Velinsky standing on site at Barnegat Bay with a core barrel.

Environmental Science

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the months ahead, new exhibitions will fill our galleries with exciting opportunities and engaging programs that delve into timely climate change and environmental issues focused on water. Their thin, fragile shells are sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry. Here’s the schedule of temporary exhibits for 2022.

2022

Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Among the many engaging activities, there were opportunities to check out fossil specimens with our paleontologists, witness the microscopic beauty of water with our environmental scientists, bind a field journal with our librarians and archivists, and learn about the work of our brilliant Women In Natural Sciences students. .

2021

Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The fascinating world of rainforests and the animals that inhabit them are the focus of the new exhibition opening February 17 at the Academy of Natural Sciences. This new exhibition will allow visitors to connect vivid animal experiences with ongoing conversations about climate change, biodiversity loss and conservation.

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