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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

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Different forms of Solar Geoengineering (NOAA/CIRES) With good will on all sides, a UNEA resolution might have been a step towards a genuinely global assessment process, respecting a wide range of knowledge types and facilitating well governed research that would help everyone understand the issues at stake. But it wasn’t to be.

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Drexel Helps Set Climate Resilience Research Agenda for Philadelphia

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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. By Alissa Falcone.

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Updated USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map Spotlights Changing City

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In the coming years, Philadelphia gardeners may try out some new plants and retire old favorites after an updated government map was released this fall. Natural history collections, like those at the Academy of Natural Sciences, help us understand these changes. Ir Like/Unsplash What is the Plant Hardiness Zone Map?

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Are Solar Panels Right for You?

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When Academy of Natural Sciences members Chris and Alysia Fostek saw that their first energy bill for their then-new home was more than $500, they knew there had to be a better, greener way. April is Earth Month, a time when many are considering how they can make changes to their homes and their lives to be more sustainable.

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Climate Year Wrap-Up

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The Environmental Collaboratory is an important interdisciplinary initiative that unites Drexel and the Academy of Natural Sciences to mobilize Drexel’s powerful research programs and community engagement to identify and implement solutions to environmental challenges. A draft report will be released in early 2022.

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

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As a scholar of governance, I see that these new ESIs tend to share some social, political, and ethical challenges: The goal of environmental governance : Are they to restore pre-industrial conditions as much as possible, to help humanity sustainably thrive, to compensate for past wrongs, or something else?

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Women Voices on Climate Change, Part 2

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Here is the second and final post in the series which is part of ongoing programming for Climate Year at Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences. I see possibility in the youth who have stood up and taken on governments and industry to demand change and are not backing down. For the next eight responses, read on.