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Amanda Mott
Director of News and Media
ammott@upenn.edu
Climate Change
Balancing renewable energy development and land protection
Balancing renewable energy development and land protection
In an Energy Week event, Grace Wu and Jonathan Thompson provided perspectives on tradeoffs in land use from their work in California and Massachusetts.
Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia
Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia
An international group of scholars, including archaeologists from the School of Arts & Sciences, synthesized archaeological evidence in South Asia from 12,000 and 6,000 years ago.
Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
Experts offered predictions and insights for leaders in the incoming administration at a Perry World House forum.
A look back at 2024 through Penn Today stories
A look back at 2024 through Penn Today stories
Revisit some of the stories that highlighted the events, breakthroughs, people, and research across the University this year.
Climate crisis meets nursing know-how
Climate crisis meets nursing know-how
How nurses at Penn are innovating public health care for a changing world.
White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope
White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope
In a fireside chat at Penn, Ali Zaidi talked about the Biden Administration’s climate policy as a throughline to securing global competitiveness and domestic prosperity.
An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future
An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future
Members of the Penn community celebrated an energy research milestone: the unveiling of the new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology.
The other emissions coming from cars
The other emissions coming from cars
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.
A greener, cleaner way to extract cobalt
A greener, cleaner way to extract cobalt
Penn researchers led a collaborative effort pioneering safer, more sustainable technique to extract elements critical to battery-powered technologies. Findings pave the way for getting value from materials that would otherwise be considered waste.
Collaborating on agricultural climate solutions, from plants to animals
The new Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center brought together faculty speakers from five schools for its Climate Solutions for the Living World symposium.
Media Contact
In the News
Associated Press
In a reversal, plans for U.S. natural gas power grow, complicating progress on climate
John Quigley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that the construction of every new natural gas plant is a setback for climate goals.
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Associated Press
EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the latest form of climate denial is to pretend climate change isn’t a threat rather than denying that it’s happening.
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Associated Press
The U.S. is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anyway
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that global temperature increases are still within what climate models forecast.
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Salon.com
A recent report finds climate change is accelerating faster than predicted. Some experts disagree
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that polluters and petrostates will amplify exaggerations about the climate as a distraction to be weaponized on social media.
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Project Syndicate
Guernica is always with us
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the U.S. election results will likely make stabilizing global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius impossible.
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Inside Climate News
As California pushes increased ethanol use, experts sound the alarm on environmental impacts
Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that the negative impacts of biofuels on land are difficult to overstate.
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