Climate Change

September 21st at the Fairmount Water Works!

Junes in Philadelphia are increasingly hotter, so this past month was an exception. Despite temperatures rising (and even breaking the global temperature records this week), June was slightly cooler and wetter than normal, according to new data from Climate Central....

From disappearing shorelines to extreme weather events, we are witnessing the effects of climate change in real-time. As we look to the future, NLM welcomes Julie Hancher, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Green Phillyas she leads a discussion with Roland Wall, Executive Director of...

DEP declared Thursday a “Code Red” and Friday a “Code Orange” for Air Quality Action Day across the keystone state. Although the air quality isn’t as dangerous as it was a few weeks ago, smoke from Canadian wildfires is again...

ULI Philadelphia and AIA Philadelphia are pleased to offer a joint book club to read From the Ground Up / Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities, by Alison Sant. Island Press describes: “For decades, American cities have experimented with ways to remake...

A new study finds that most Americans understands that climate change is human-caused and think that individual choices make a difference. When it comes to climate, Americans mostly are on the same page – even if they’re quiet. The majority...

Love our Earth. Stand up for our planet. PhilHarmonia is proud to close our ninth season with the world premiere of Adam Silverman’s Elegy for the Earth – a powerful setting of poems by Susan Gubernat that bemoan the harmful...

This past April’s temperatures and rainfall continue to track with climate trends. Climate change is making Philadelphia hotter and wetter. April followed this trend with an unusually warm and wet month, according to Climate Central. Philadelphia’s average April temperature of...

The month was way warmer and dryer, as trends of climate change continue to show. Spotting shorts in February is unusual. This past month, you may have noticed way warmer days than normal. Philadelphia was much warmer than normal and much...