Sustainability News

- Earth Day, Every Day: Talking Climate Change With Your Peers
  
  February 12, 2020
  
  Healthy debate and discourse are at the center of most undergraduate students' lifestyles, but it may be hard to have a conversation with peers about climate change. Two activist students weigh in on how to ease the burden.
  
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- Suffocating Ozone - Policies That Stem Emission of Precursor Chemicals Save Lives and Crops
  
  January 08, 2020
  
  <span>An international team of environmental and atmospheric scientists have pinpointed the chemical emissions that contribute the most to the harmful air quality conditions that are choking more and more cities and causing health problems and reducing agricultural production across the United States. The findings suggest that targeted policies could be more effective in limiting the formation of ground-level ozone, like smog, which contributes to tens of thousands of respiratory related deaths and nearly a billion dollars of crop loss each year.</span>
  
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- Top Drexel Stories of 2019
  
  December 11, 2019
  
  Here’s a look back on what happened at the University this year and the Dragons who were involved with some of the biggest news and events that had impacted campus and society as a whole.
  
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- Study: Actually, Potted Plants Don't Improve Air Quality
  
  November 06, 2019
  
  A closer look at decades of research suggesting that potted plants can improve the air in homes and offices reveals the findings don’t hold up outside of the lab.
  
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- Ashes to Concrete
  
  October 28, 2019
  
  Drexel University researchers have developed a process for turning the solid waste products of coal power plants into a useful ingredient that could improve properties of concrete.
  
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- Heard Around Campus — August
  
  August 28, 2019
  
  This month’s installments offers information about the end of the 2018–2019 academic year and how employees can sign up for the Supervisory Certificate Program, Peer Ambassador Program and the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentorship program.
  
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- Are We Really Protecting Rivers and Streams From Pollution? It’s Hard to Say, And That’s a Problem.
  
  August 20, 2019
  
  More public and private resources than ever are being directed to protecting and preserving aquatic ecosystems and watersheds. Whether mandated for land development, farming or in response to the growing severity and number of natural disasters – scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University found evidence that decades of watershed restoration and mitigation projects have taken place, but their impact is mostly perceived; data is relatively undocumented — or simply missing.
  
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- New Exhibit Explores the Best of the BEES
  
  August 12, 2019
  
  The Drexel Collection’s new show is centered around the educational and professional opportunities made available by the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science.
  
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- As Rocky Mountain Region Plans Its Energy Future, Study Suggests Reigning in Greenhouse Gas Will Save Hundreds of Lives and Billions of Dollars
  
  July 25, 2019
  
  Research by Drexel University and the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests that imposing fees on energy producers that emit greenhouse gas could improve the health and financial well-being of the Rocky Mountain region.
  
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- Using Bacteria to Protect Roads From Potholes Caused by Road Salt
  
  April 09, 2019
  
  Special bacteria that help form limestone and marble could soon have a new job on a road crew. Recent research from Drexel University’s College of Engineering shows how the bacteria, called Sporosarcina pasteurii, can be used to prevent the road degradation caused by ice-melting salt.
  
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