Facing competition from cheap natural gas and a growing renewables market, coal-fired power plants are on the decline in the United States. But new research led by energy systems modelers at Princeton University demonstrates that traditional strategies for retiring coal plants based on minimizing costs could be leaving other climate and equity…

A congressionally mandated study led by Princeton's Emily Carter has released a comprehensive roadmap for research and policies to enable large-scale recycling of carbon pollution into high-demand, useful products like fuels and construction materials.

The release follows a 

Project supported by a $3.6 million National Science Foundation grant

A new collaborative research project will provide potential solutions for decarbonizing chemical plants, helping to establish American leadership in “green manufacturing.”

The project is supported by a $3.6 million grant from the…

The Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES) was successfully renewed for another five years under award NA23OAR4320198 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). CIMES is an outgrowth of a highly successful fifty-year collaboration between Princeton University…

Since 2011, enormous seaweed blooms have spread across the Atlantic Ocean, spanning over 5,000 miles from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.

Known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the leviathan — visible from space — has wreaked havoc on environments and economies throughout the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, where unprecedented…

Since its implementation in 2017, China’s clean heating policy has considerably improved air quality.  However, the share of non-fossil sources in China’s urban district heating systems remains low.   According to a Princeton-led study (Link is external),…

Hard-to-abate sectors accounted for approximately 30% of global CO2 emissions in 2018.  One third of these hard-to-abate emissions were a result of the fossil fuels and feedstocks used in the steel and chemical industries.   A Princeton-led 

Evidence from a new study shows that current conservation efforts may not be going far enough to protect threatened species.

Rules that constrain human behavior, or "institutional factors," can both formally and informally effect sustainability outcomes, whether it is through officially-recognized policy mechanisms or unwritten rules that are dictated by social norms and beliefs, the researchers found.

A new study finds that future climate warming is likely to worsen coastal flooding accompanying tropical cyclones.