Think Forward

More than 500 cities worldwide have established low-carbon and net-zero carbon goals intended to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades.

What is a net-zero city? Depends on how you count urban carbon emissions

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Sustainability

For his senior thesis, Luca Kuziel is investigating the biomes and microbiomes of animals in six African regions, including Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, where he spent two pre-COVID-19 field seasons, and the Mpala Research Center in Kenya (seen here).

Connection and resilience: Kuziel explores the ecology of the African savannah

Sustainability

Princeton researchers discovered a way to accurately project extreme heat in the tropics under climate change by looking at the atmospheric dynamics that control the region’s “wet-bulb” temperature, a combination of heat and humidity.

Simple atmospheric dynamics foretell dangerously hot future for the tropics

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Health

April Forward Fest tackles the environment

Environmental leaders discuss challenges and solutions at April Forward Fest

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Sustainability

The next Forward Fest takes place April 15 and focuses on Princeton’s growing interdisciplinary power in the environment and sustainability.

Forward Fest public conversation series continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking

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Energy
Policy

Princeton Environmental Research

Princeton Research Both Deep and Broad on Environment Concerns

Climate

Allison Carruth

5 Questions with Allison Carruth

Arts and Humanities
Climate

As Princeton University undergoes one of the most extensive building programs in its history over the next decade, it is using the opportunity to lay the foundation needed to achieve “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions before mid-century.

The time is now

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Sustainability
Energy
Student Life

Lake Carnegie in winter Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications

Is Lake Carnegie showing a climate trend?

Climate

From car parts to lipstick to N-95 masks to implants – these are all made of plastics – the carbon and hydrogen byproducts of refining natural gas and refining petroleum. (Illustration by Bumper DeJesus)

Andlinger Center speaks: The carbon in our things

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Sustainability
Materials

Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Miami found that the latest generation of high-sensitivity climate models do not provide a plausible scenario of Earth’s future climate.

High end of climate sensitivity in new climate models seen as less plausible

Climate
Policy

Princeton researchers used tiny glass beads as a substitute for soil, so they could observe the behavior of hydrogels — tiny plastic blobs that can absorb a thousand times their weight in water — whose success in agriculture has been puzzlingly uneven.

‘See-through soil’ could help farmers deal with future droughts

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Materials