Scientists know that sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been shrinking dramatically over the past few decades; but the behavior of shorefast ice, the ice that forms within Arctic fjords, has been less well-understood.

Effective immediately, IBES Director Amanda Lynch has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Panel, the peak advising body of the World Meteorological Organization.

Water and life from snow: A trillion dollar science question, a paper published in Water Resources Research by Visiting Scholar in Environment and Society Michael Goldstein, has been recognized as one of the journal's top downloaded papers.

Two IBES-affiliated seniors and one recent alumna have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the upcoming year, embodying Brown's tradition of being the top Fulbright-producing university in the country.

Michael Goldstein, Donald P. Babson Professor of Applied Investments at Babson College, is joining IBES as a Visiting Scholar in Environment and Society.

Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore, by IBES affiliate fellow Elizabeth Rush, is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in General Nonfiction this year.

Last month, a group of 75 business and civic leaders met at Brown University to hear from local scholars about the climate crises facing the city of Providence in the coming years.

IBES Director Amanda Lynch and former visiting fellow Siri Veland discuss their new book Urgency in the Anthropocene on Rice University's podcast, Cultures of Energy.

January in Australia brought record high temperatures, intense winds, and extreme flash-flooding events. And despite Australia's normally hot climate, the heat seen there in recent days is more extreme than ever.

As a young child in China, Jiajue Chai wondered why the air quality was so variable. One day it was crystal clear, the next dusty, and the next so hazy that it was difficult to breathe.

Providence business leaders joined the Rhode Island academic community Jan. 15 and 16 for the "Providence Resiliency Workshop," an event hosted at the University and designed to highlight the challenges climate change presents for Providence.

When Bathsheba Demuth '06, '07 AM decided to go for a hike on her first day in Old Crow, Yukon, she didn't realize it was grizzly bear season. Walking on a trail through dense undergrowth, Demuth soon came across a large paw print filling with water. Looking down, Demuth saw her own tracks begin to submerge. The grizzly lurked just ahead.

Centuries ago, the eastern coast of Brazil was home to a flourishing rainforest twice the size of Texas. Today, that forest—called the Mata Atlantica, or Atlantic Forest—is a shadow of its former self. Hundreds of years of deforestation and development have reduced the Mata Atlantica to just 15% of its historical extent, causing mass habitat loss and threatening its globally-unmatched biodiversity.

A new skin disease seen in Galapagos fish is likely due to extreme El Niño events, write IBES graduate affiliate Robert Lamb and colleagues in a new paper.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society is pleased to announce the release of its latest edition of Earth Matters.

The Rhode Island of yesteryear was famous for its bustling manufacturing sector. Between the late-18th and mid-20th centuries, a world-class network of textile mills, jewelry-making factories, and other industrial facilities bloomed across the center of the state.

Sociologist and Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies J. Timmons Roberts has high aspirations for his undergraduates.

At age 19, Mariaelena Huambachano immigrated to New Zealand. Born and raised in Chorrillos, Peru, she had never thought much about her own Indigenous heritage—until she found herself in a small Māori town.

It is 1998 and Nancy Jacobs stands awestruck at Lake Baringo in Kenya, floored by the immense wisdom of a local bird guide. Globally known as a birdwatcher's paradise, the lake is home to more than 350 species of birds—and the guide seemed to know all of them.

The Program for Environmental and Civic Engagement (PECE), a new initiative of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), is excited to announce a new collaboration with the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship.

"Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities," finds that environmental regulatory agencies and laws fail to address the scale of industrial hazards in American cities.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society is now seeking applications for two annual postdoctoral opportunities.

Human geographer Kai Bosworth has always been fascinated by environmental social movements surrounding land ethics, especially in the rural American Midwest and West.

The Institute is now home to three compelling new works of art created by local artists Johnathan Derry and Amy Wynne.

Archaeologists and geologists are hard at work this summer in Sardinia, digging into the earth and analyzing what comes out—all in an effort to better understand the way the region’s climate and landscape have changed over the last 10,000 years.

A new book, Sites Unseen, by IBES fellow Scott Frickel and colleague James R. Elliott, is out this month from the Russell Sage Foundation.

Tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Climate Change

A summer intensive course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for high school girls finished last week, the first of its kind at the Institute.

The Earth Science Women's Network, an international peer-mentoring organization for women in the geosciences, has received a national honor for its work in creating a supportive community for thousands of scientists.
IBES fellow and Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Meredith Hastings is co-founder and President of the organization.

At 80 degrees North, the ice edge draws an abundance of marine life: sunlight-loving phytoplankton, schools of coldwater fish, and hundreds of diving, rolling narwhal crooning an eerie tune. At the outset of his Arctic research adventure last summer, Voss Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Horvat pitched a tent and basked in the serenity of the otherworldly polar scene.

IBES Director Amanda Lynch has given a keynote presentation at a key climate change meeting in Bonn today.