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Is Climate Change Keeping Patients from Vital Doctor Appointments?
July 15, 2024

Temperature extremes, becoming increasingly frequent due to growing global climate change, are associated with higher rates of missed primary care appointments.



A New Baseline for “Fenceline” Community Health and Chemical Industry Accountability
April 29, 2024

Mathy Stanislaus, Executive Director of The Environmental Collaboratory, discusses the Biden Administration's new chemical plant emissions rule that plans to reduce more than 6,200 tons of toxic air pollution each year.



Students, Faculty Represent Drexel University at COP28 Through Dialogue and Research
January 12, 2024

Over two weeks, 11 community members traveled to Dubai to engage in talk of climate solutions.



Science Diplomacy in International Organizations: Fostering Multilateral Resilience and Driving Sustainable Innovations
February 22, 2023

Convened by the German Center for Research and Innovation, UA Ruhr and UAS7, and supported by the German Consulate General, 40 high level science diplomacy experts and practitioners met in November to exchange their work and thoughts on the role of science diplomacy and multilateralism for the most pressing global issues.



Waverly Street Foundation Grant Will Support Community-Based Climate Solutions
February 14, 2023

The Environmental Collaboratory received a Climate Hubs Learning Partner grant from the Waverly Street Foundation to support its work in community-based climate solutions.



Drexel Students Host First-Ever Local Conference of Youth in the United States
November 3, 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



Q&A: Mathy Vathanaraj Stanislaus and The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel
March 10, 2022

Mathy Vathanaraj Stanislaus discusses the interdisciplinary initiative to partner Drexel’s research programs and community engagement efforts to identify and incorporate climate, environmental justice and the implementation of corporate commitments to environment, social and governance obligations.

In the News

July in Philly has become 4.4 degrees hotter since 1940 on average. Nights are even warmer.  
Philadelphians sweated through Julys in the 1940s, brooding over World War II as temperatures averaged in the mid-to-upper 70s, including nighttime lows.
Cooling Is a Human Right: Philadelphia Must Act Now to Protect Its Residents
Philadelphia is heating up — and too many of our neighbors can’t escape it. In parts of North, West and South Philadelphia, summer temperatures can soar 20 degrees higher than in greener, wealthier parts of the city. Heat is deadly — it’s a public health emergency that exposes the deep inequities shaping who stays safe and who suffers when the heat rises.
Philly area environmental justice groups are finding resilience in the wake of federal funding cuts  
EPA’s environmental justice grants have cost Philadelphia County more than $50 million in direct and indirect economic impacts.
Stanislaus talks community solutions to extreme weather climate crisis
Stanislaus talks community solutions to extreme weather, climate crisis
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