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Cities worldwide aren’t adapting to climate change quickly enough
By John Rennie Short, professor, public policy, UMBC Climate change is magnifying threats such as flooding, wildfires, tropical storms and drought. In 2020 the U.S. experienced a...
Posted: October 20, 2021, 7:18 PM
How Can Smoke from West Coast Fires Cause Red Sunsets in New York?
By Jeffrey B. Halverson, professor, Geography and Environmental Systems, associate dean, Graduate School, UMBC If you are one of the millions of people in the Midwest and Eastern U.S. who...
Posted: September 22, 2020, 4:24 PM
Climate Shift
From Eritrea to UMBC, this physicist is cultivating a diverse generation of climate scientists. It’s a nearly cloudless afternoon at UMBC in early October. A group of physics students and their...
Posted: December 10, 2019, 4:47 PM