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Tiemeng Ma is a doctoral candidate in energy, environmental and food economics at Penn State.

Oct. 29 seminar to discuss effects of California power shutoffs

October 21, 2025

Sarma Pisupati working in a lab at Penn State University Park.

EarthTalks highlights critical minerals research with fall series

October 21, 2025

Research Professor Tim White, left, and postdoctoral scholar Nick Sullivan will deliver a talk Oct. 27 as part of the EarthTalks speaker series.

EarthTalks: Lithium patterns evident in long-mined Pennsylvania formation

October 20, 2025

Reddish Martian soil is seen with flecks of Martian ice.

Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the ice, researchers say

October 15, 2025

Benjamin Edelstein of Loyola University Chicago

Oct. 22 seminar to explore water impact fees in Colorado

October 13, 2025

Camilo Younes-Velosa is a Penn State visiting scholar from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Oct. 15 seminar to spotlight Colombia’s hydropower, electricity market

October 06, 2025

An aerial view of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980.

New tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis

October 03, 2025

Thandie Moyo is an assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

EarthTalks: Understanding mineral composition key to advancing metal recovery

September 30, 2025

Xibo Wan is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Connecticut.

Oct. 8 seminar to explore usage gaps at farmers' markets

September 30, 2025

Maureen Feineman is an associate research professor of geosciences at Penn State.

EarthTalks: How Pennsylvania’s industrial past can support tech, energy

September 16, 2025

Sarma Pisupati, director of the Center for Critical Minerals at Penn State

EarthTalks: Turning waste into sources of critical minerals, rare earth elements

September 10, 2025

Yuhui Jeong is a doctoral candidate in energy, environmental and food economics at Penn State.

Sept. 17 seminar: Environmental, market effects of commercial organic waste ban

September 10, 2025

Dale Whittington of UNC-Chapel Hill

Sept. 10 seminar: Policy mix can promote transition to 'circular' water systems

September 03, 2025

Fall EarthTalks will spotlight critical minerals as economic, security necessity

September 02, 2025

Student working in a garden on a green space lot located on a city block

Urban sustainability, high-performance building design lessons in Pittsburgh

August 26, 2025

A cow and two water buffalo appear in Bharatpur Municipality, Chitwan District, Nepal

In disaster-prone Nepal, farmers sticking with agriculture amid climate risks

August 13, 2025

A dual degree environmental engineering and biogeochemistry graduate student stands for a photo outdoors.

Graduate student earns NSF fellowship to study carbon in river systems

July 16, 2025

Aerial view of Thwaites Glacier

Measuring how – and where – Antarctic ice is cracking with new data tool

July 09, 2025

Ocean, atmosphere equally responsible for Atlantic ‘cold blob,’ scientists find

June 30, 2025

Nutifafa Doumon and Nelson Dzade

EMS faculty members earn National Academies US-African Frontiers Fellowships

June 27, 2025

a turfgrass lawn at a golf course

Lawn story: Turfgrass data may improve urban greenhouse gas emission estimates

June 06, 2025

April 23 EEEPI seminar: effect of fuel taxes on legislative outcomes

April 15, 2025

EEEPI seminar: Estimating the health care cost of sugar-sweetened beverages

April 09, 2025

EarthTalks: Support for deploying new technologies for clean energy systems

April 08, 2025

Lee Kump and JP Maria

Earth and Mineral Sciences faculty and students honored at college's awards ceremony

April 08, 2025

Penn State mourns loss of world-renowned meteorologist Jenni Evans

April 07, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour to feature Richard Alley on sea-level rise and ice sheets

March 31, 2025

Old Main viewed through Armillary Sphere

Four Penn State faculty elected AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

April 2 seminar: Emissions trading effect on water quality, carbon sequestration

March 24, 2025

Benjamin Collier

March 26 seminar to discuss effect of emergency credit on households’ finances

March 19, 2025

March 19 seminar to discuss hedging economic risks related to climate change

March 13, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour lecture to feature Sophie Webber on climate finance

March 13, 2025

Aftermath of extensive flooding along the New Jersey shore following Hurricane Sandy.

Framework to help scientists choose impactful place-based research locations

March 10, 2025

Seminar to discuss impact of revealing indoor air pollution on behavior, welfare

February 25, 2025

EarthTalks: Widga to discuss museums as partners in broader impact activities

February 25, 2025

EEEPI Seminar: Lucy Page to discuss large-scale carbon labeling on Feb. 26

February 18, 2025

Feb. 24 EarthTalks: Cross-disciplinary collaboration employing stakeholder input

February 18, 2025

2025 NAE class - Susan Brantley, Long-Qing Chen and Russell Johns

Three Penn State faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 18, 2025

Feb. 17 EarthTalks: Translating STEM research to improve K-12 education

February 11, 2025

Seminar on flood insurance policies to be held Feb. 19

February 10, 2025

Feb. 12 EEEPI seminar: Effect of policies on groundwater resources in India

February 05, 2025

Researchers visit the Laguna del Hunco fossil rainforest site in Argentina

Fossils show leaf-eating insects tracked gum trees for millions of years

February 04, 2025

EEEPI talk: Sustainable energy strategies for sub-Saharan Africa households

January 27, 2025

Daniel Max Crowley

Broader impacts and engagement in research design focus of spring EarthTalks

January 21, 2025

Panel discussion will explore outcomes, key takeaways from COP29

January 17, 2025

Susan Brantley, Evan Pugh University Professor and Barnes Professor of Geosciences

Evan Pugh Professor Susan Brantley to retire after 40 years at Penn State

December 02, 2024

Sunset on the Indian Ocean as seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

New approach improves models of atmosphere on early Earth, exo-planets

November 18, 2024

Dec. 4 talk with EPA economist Patrick Walsh canceled

November 11, 2024

EarthTalks: Chief sustainability officer to discuss decarbonizing the University

November 11, 2024

EarthTalks Nov 4 Klass

EarthTalks: Klass to discuss potential for ‘repurposed energy’ on Nov. 4

October 30, 2024

Nov. 6 EEEPI talk: Do dams and groundwater mitigate economic impact of drought?

October 29, 2024

EEEPI seminar Oct 30 placard with Gustafson's picture and details of the event

Gustafson to discuss biodiversity protection, land values on Oct. 30

October 22, 2024

EarthTalks: Thandy Moyo Oct. 28

EarthTalks: Professor to discuss recycling as strategy for critical metals

October 22, 2024

Sizhuo Chen EEEPI seminar

Doctoral candidate to discuss high wildfire-risk zones effect on property values

October 15, 2024

Penn State professor Susan Brantley named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania

October 09, 2024

Two-part celebration to honor career of EMS professor Alan Taylor

October 09, 2024

Josh Reed EEEPI Oct 16 seminar

Reed to discuss rational addiction to ultra-processed food on Oct. 16

October 09, 2024

David Just to discuss lottery selection and probability weighting on Oct. 9

October 01, 2024

EarthTalks Sept 30 Righetti

EarthTalks: Discussion of land acquisition for carbon sequestration on Sept. 30

September 24, 2024

EEEPI seminar Praharsh Patel

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy seminar series continues Sept. 25

September 24, 2024

Water flowing on the Colorado River near Moab, Utah

New tool to help decision makers navigate possible futures of the Colorado River

September 20, 2024

Three people stand outside.

Taylor’s research legacy shines light on California wildfires, forest ecology

September 12, 2024

Scans of the a giant fossil legume

Giant fossil seeds from Borneo record ancient plant migration

August 07, 2024

April 22 EarthTalks: Sustainable and climate-resilient urban solutions

April 16, 2024

EarthTalks April 15 Michael Waring

EarthTalks: Michael Waring to discuss indoor air quality on April 15

April 08, 2024

EarthTalks Kirsten Koehler

April 1 EarthTalks: Environmental health exposure assessment using sensor data

March 25, 2024

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Tiemeng Ma is a doctoral candidate in energy, environmental and food economics at Penn State.

Oct. 29 seminar to discuss effects of California power shutoffs

October 21, 2025

Sarma Pisupati working in a lab at Penn State University Park.

EarthTalks highlights critical minerals research with fall series

October 21, 2025

Research Professor Tim White, left, and postdoctoral scholar Nick Sullivan will deliver a talk Oct. 27 as part of the EarthTalks speaker series.

EarthTalks: Lithium patterns evident in long-mined Pennsylvania formation

October 20, 2025

Reddish Martian soil is seen with flecks of Martian ice.

Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the ice, researchers say

October 15, 2025

Benjamin Edelstein of Loyola University Chicago

Oct. 22 seminar to explore water impact fees in Colorado

October 13, 2025

Camilo Younes-Velosa is a Penn State visiting scholar from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Oct. 15 seminar to spotlight Colombia’s hydropower, electricity market

October 06, 2025

An aerial view of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980.

New tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis

October 03, 2025

Thandie Moyo is an assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

EarthTalks: Understanding mineral composition key to advancing metal recovery

September 30, 2025

Xibo Wan is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Connecticut.

Oct. 8 seminar to explore usage gaps at farmers' markets

September 30, 2025

Maureen Feineman is an associate research professor of geosciences at Penn State.

EarthTalks: How Pennsylvania’s industrial past can support tech, energy

September 16, 2025

Sarma Pisupati, director of the Center for Critical Minerals at Penn State

EarthTalks: Turning waste into sources of critical minerals, rare earth elements

September 10, 2025

Yuhui Jeong is a doctoral candidate in energy, environmental and food economics at Penn State.

Sept. 17 seminar: Environmental, market effects of commercial organic waste ban

September 10, 2025

Dale Whittington of UNC-Chapel Hill

Sept. 10 seminar: Policy mix can promote transition to 'circular' water systems

September 03, 2025

Fall EarthTalks will spotlight critical minerals as economic, security necessity

September 02, 2025

Student working in a garden on a green space lot located on a city block

Urban sustainability, high-performance building design lessons in Pittsburgh

August 26, 2025

A cow and two water buffalo appear in Bharatpur Municipality, Chitwan District, Nepal

In disaster-prone Nepal, farmers sticking with agriculture amid climate risks

August 13, 2025

A dual degree environmental engineering and biogeochemistry graduate student stands for a photo outdoors.

Graduate student earns NSF fellowship to study carbon in river systems

July 16, 2025

Aerial view of Thwaites Glacier

Measuring how – and where – Antarctic ice is cracking with new data tool

July 09, 2025

Ocean, atmosphere equally responsible for Atlantic ‘cold blob,’ scientists find

June 30, 2025

Nutifafa Doumon and Nelson Dzade

EMS faculty members earn National Academies US-African Frontiers Fellowships

June 27, 2025

a turfgrass lawn at a golf course

Lawn story: Turfgrass data may improve urban greenhouse gas emission estimates

June 06, 2025

April 23 EEEPI seminar: effect of fuel taxes on legislative outcomes

April 15, 2025

EEEPI seminar: Estimating the health care cost of sugar-sweetened beverages

April 09, 2025

EarthTalks: Support for deploying new technologies for clean energy systems

April 08, 2025

Lee Kump and JP Maria

Earth and Mineral Sciences faculty and students honored at college's awards ceremony

April 08, 2025

Penn State mourns loss of world-renowned meteorologist Jenni Evans

April 07, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour to feature Richard Alley on sea-level rise and ice sheets

March 31, 2025

Old Main viewed through Armillary Sphere

Four Penn State faculty elected AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

April 2 seminar: Emissions trading effect on water quality, carbon sequestration

March 24, 2025

Benjamin Collier

March 26 seminar to discuss effect of emergency credit on households’ finances

March 19, 2025

March 19 seminar to discuss hedging economic risks related to climate change

March 13, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour lecture to feature Sophie Webber on climate finance

March 13, 2025

Aftermath of extensive flooding along the New Jersey shore following Hurricane Sandy.

Framework to help scientists choose impactful place-based research locations

March 10, 2025

Seminar to discuss impact of revealing indoor air pollution on behavior, welfare

February 25, 2025

EarthTalks: Widga to discuss museums as partners in broader impact activities

February 25, 2025

EEEPI Seminar: Lucy Page to discuss large-scale carbon labeling on Feb. 26

February 18, 2025

Feb. 24 EarthTalks: Cross-disciplinary collaboration employing stakeholder input

February 18, 2025

2025 NAE class - Susan Brantley, Long-Qing Chen and Russell Johns

Three Penn State faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 18, 2025

Feb. 17 EarthTalks: Translating STEM research to improve K-12 education

February 11, 2025

Seminar on flood insurance policies to be held Feb. 19

February 10, 2025

Feb. 12 EEEPI seminar: Effect of policies on groundwater resources in India

February 05, 2025

Researchers visit the Laguna del Hunco fossil rainforest site in Argentina

Fossils show leaf-eating insects tracked gum trees for millions of years

February 04, 2025

EEEPI talk: Sustainable energy strategies for sub-Saharan Africa households

January 27, 2025

Daniel Max Crowley

Broader impacts and engagement in research design focus of spring EarthTalks

January 21, 2025

Panel discussion will explore outcomes, key takeaways from COP29

January 17, 2025

Susan Brantley, Evan Pugh University Professor and Barnes Professor of Geosciences

Evan Pugh Professor Susan Brantley to retire after 40 years at Penn State

December 02, 2024

Sunset on the Indian Ocean as seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

New approach improves models of atmosphere on early Earth, exo-planets

November 18, 2024

Dec. 4 talk with EPA economist Patrick Walsh canceled

November 11, 2024

EarthTalks: Chief sustainability officer to discuss decarbonizing the University

November 11, 2024

EarthTalks Nov 4 Klass

EarthTalks: Klass to discuss potential for ‘repurposed energy’ on Nov. 4

October 30, 2024

Nov. 6 EEEPI talk: Do dams and groundwater mitigate economic impact of drought?

October 29, 2024

EEEPI seminar Oct 30 placard with Gustafson's picture and details of the event

Gustafson to discuss biodiversity protection, land values on Oct. 30

October 22, 2024

EarthTalks: Thandy Moyo Oct. 28

EarthTalks: Professor to discuss recycling as strategy for critical metals

October 22, 2024

Sizhuo Chen EEEPI seminar

Doctoral candidate to discuss high wildfire-risk zones effect on property values

October 15, 2024

Penn State professor Susan Brantley named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania

October 09, 2024

Two-part celebration to honor career of EMS professor Alan Taylor

October 09, 2024

Josh Reed EEEPI Oct 16 seminar

Reed to discuss rational addiction to ultra-processed food on Oct. 16

October 09, 2024

David Just to discuss lottery selection and probability weighting on Oct. 9

October 01, 2024

EarthTalks Sept 30 Righetti

EarthTalks: Discussion of land acquisition for carbon sequestration on Sept. 30

September 24, 2024

EEEPI seminar Praharsh Patel

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy seminar series continues Sept. 25

September 24, 2024

Water flowing on the Colorado River near Moab, Utah

New tool to help decision makers navigate possible futures of the Colorado River

September 20, 2024

Three people stand outside.

Taylor’s research legacy shines light on California wildfires, forest ecology

September 12, 2024

Scans of the a giant fossil legume

Giant fossil seeds from Borneo record ancient plant migration

August 07, 2024

April 22 EarthTalks: Sustainable and climate-resilient urban solutions

April 16, 2024

EarthTalks April 15 Michael Waring

EarthTalks: Michael Waring to discuss indoor air quality on April 15

April 08, 2024

EarthTalks Kirsten Koehler

April 1 EarthTalks: Environmental health exposure assessment using sensor data

March 25, 2024

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