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January 8, 2026 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Interpersonal and Self-Inflicted Violence Linked to Temperature Spikes

This article relays key findings from a new study of which Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, a professor at IBES and the School of Public Health, is a co-author.

January 8, 2026 Communications Sustainability

Higher temperatures are associated with increased interpersonal and self-inflicted violence-related Medicaid hospital visits in the United States

IBES and Epidemiology Professor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou is among the authors of this new study, which links violence and temperature spikes.

January 8, 2026 bioGraphic

Pachyderm Pharmacies

Voss Postdoc Elodie Freymann, who studies self-medicating behavior among chimpanzees in Uganda, offered commentary about new research on elephants' search for medicinal plants.

January 5, 2026 News from IBES

WATCH | Values at Risk 2025: Nature, Climate, and the Systemic Risk to our Economic Future

Experts from finance, insurance, policy, and environmental science joined IBES for a timely conversation on how escalating climate and nature-related risks are reshaping economic stability—and what tools can help safeguard our financial future.

January 2, 2026 NBC Connecticut

Climate change played a key role in some significant weather events in 2025

IBES Director Kim Cobb discussed the physical and economic toll of 2025's most devastating weather events, including the Palisades and Eaton Fires and Hurricane Melissa.

December 27, 2025 Los Angeles Times

In halting offshore wind projects, we hinder our own clean energy potential

This letter to the editor cites research from the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab.

December 26, 2025 PBS

White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center

IBES Director Kim Cobb was interviewed about the role of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Trump administration's recent moves to shutter it.

December 19, 2025 WBUR

New study finds sea level rise is speeding up, contradicting federal report

IBES Fellow Baylor-Fox Kemper, a professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, offered commentary for this article.

December 17, 2025 The New York Times

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

IBES Director Kim Cobb described the National Center for Atmospheric Research as “the beating heart of our field” and called its end “unthinkable.”

December 17, 2025 Bloomberg

Trump Administration Aims to Dismantle Key Climate Research Hub

IBES Director Kim Cobb called plans to shutter the National Center for Atmospheric Research "a national security risk."

December 11, 2025 News from IBES

IBES at COP30: Faculty examine wins, setbacks, and what comes next

Through on-the-ground interviews and new insights on misinformation, IBES faculty members Myles Lennon and Timmons Roberts uncovered what COP30 achieved—and what still stands in the way.

December 11, 2025 Canary Media

The man behind the fall of offshore wind

Professor Timmons Roberts offered commentary on opposition to offshore wind, which is often based in misinformation.

December 10, 2025 PEN America

Snapshots of Censorship: Tilting at Windmills

Professor Timmons Roberts penned this column, which reflects on recent political threats to academic research.

December 8, 2025 News from IBES

Meet Voss Fellow Piete Gatesi ’27: Balancing safety, performance, and durability in formulating the next alternative battery

Gatesi, an Engineering Physics and ENVS concentrator, is researching “the most promising alternative” to standard lithium ion batteries by manipulating Lithium Lanthanum Zirconium Tantalum Oxide (LLZTO) to be more sustainable.

December 7, 2025 Technology.Org

Research provides new design specs for burgeoning sodium-ion batteries

Yue Qi — an engineering professor, IBES affiliate, and deputy director of Brown's Initiative for Sustainable Energy — discussed her new study, which offers guidance for designing sodium-ion batteries.

December 5, 2025 The Brown Daily Herald

Fighting the College Hill floods: Brown takes steps to contain stormwater

IBES Director Kim Cobb offered commentary on Brown's efforts to increase climate resilience on campus.

November 30, 2025 The New York Times

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

IBES Professor Timmons Roberts offered commentary on "sophisticated and extremely well funded" disinformation campaigns that have "succeeded at undermining climate action globally.”

November 26, 2025 News from Brown

Expanding seasonal immunization access could minimize off-season RSV epidemics

Researchers found differences in how respiratory syncytial virus spreads among children in rural versus urban communities and concluded that year-round immunizations would minimize risks of large seasonal outbreaks.

November 26, 2025 Media Matters for America

Corporate broadcast news covered this year’s COP30 global climate summit for 2 minutes — cable networks covered it for just over 3 hours

This article cites commentary from IBES Director Kim Cobb, who discussed COP30 and the global state of clean energy on CNN.

November 24, 2025 Mongabay

Obstruction tactics delay climate action, says global assessment

The IBES-based Climate Social Science Network, led by Professor Timmons Roberts, recently released "Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment," which explores who is blocking action on climate change and how they are doing it.

November 20, 2025 News from Brown

Research provides new design specs for burgeoning sodium-ion batteries

A study provides new guidance for designing sodium-ion batteries, which are emerging as a less expensive and more environmentally friendly complement to lithium-based batteries.

November 19, 2025 The Brown Daily Herald

Brown begins work on $7 million microplastics research initiative

IBES Fellow Baylor Fox Kemper and Affiliate Mara Freilich, both faculty members in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, are among the Brown researchers involved in the new SIMCoast initiative.

November 18, 2025 Bay to Bay News

Eidman: Big Oil is duping us about offshore wind

This column cites reports from researchers at the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab.

November 17, 2025 Earth Journalism Network

Countries Sign A Declaration To Fight Climate Disinformation At COP30

IBES Professor Timmons Roberts is among the prominent voices who advocated against climate disinformation at COP30 in Brazil.

November 17, 2025 Facing Future

The Phosphorus Conundrum

IBES Professor Stephen Porder and UVM Associate Professor Eric Roy, a former Voss postdoc, joined this episode of Facing Future to explain their work on the phosphorous cycle.

November 16, 2025 CNN

Kim Cobb on CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield

IBES Director Kim Cobb reflected on the absence of a US delegation at COP30 and the state of global climate action.

November 14, 2025 The Cool Down

Researchers make game-changing discovery while studying massive ice sheet: 'There's water flowing all over the place'

Professor Laurence C. Smith and colleagues are leading research on the melting Arctic and examining where meltwater ultimately ends up.

November 12, 2025 Global Issues

Without Truth, There Can Be No Climate Justice—Experts

IBES Professor Timmons Roberts discussed climate disinformation at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

November 12, 2025 LAist

Resetting the discussion around climate crisis

IBES Director Kim Cobb joined the AirTalk radio show to discuss Bill Gates's recent memo on climate change — in which he expresses concerns on how the climate crisis is being framed and addressed — and how should we talk about climate moving forward.

November 12, 2025 News from IBES

WATCH | Usable climate science: Adam Sobel on making risk research work for the real world

At a recent IBES seminar, Columbia University’s Adam Sobel called for a transparent approach to climate risk science—one that guides practical decisions in an era of extremes.

November 12, 2025 CNN

New reports paint picture of an ‘extremely dangerous’ future with warming expected to blow past key limit

IBES Director Kim Cobb offered commentary on carbon emissions and climate.

November 10, 2025 News from IBES

IBES Voss Fellows bring climate research to the community

Members of the 2025-2026 Voss Undergraduate Fellowship cohort have shared their research with local audiences through the Conversations in Science series at Providence’s Hamilton House.

November 9, 2025 Frontiers in Bird Science

Fire-crested alethes (Alethe castanea) follow humans and bushbuck in Uganda’s Budongo Forest

This report, authored by IBES Voss Postdoc Elodie Freymann, documents a novel foraging behavior in fire-crested alethes in the Budongo Forest Reserve of Western Uganda.

November 6, 2025 Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Algorithmic North: Weather, Security and International Law

Professor Amanda Lynch co-authored this policy brief.

November 6, 2025 News from Brown

Pecking with power: How tiny woodpeckers deliver devastating strikes to drill into wood

A new study reveals how woodpeckers combine breathing and whole-body coordination to drill into trees with extraordinary force.

November 6, 2025 Undark

The Cultural and Political Moment for Toxins Research

IBES affiliate David Savitz, a professor emeritus of epidemiology and pediatrics, offered commentary on how uncertainty around toxin data can affect public health outcomes.

November 5, 2025 Nature Climate Change

Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement

Experts including Professor J. Timmons Roberts reflected on the progress of and barriers to several of the Paris Agreement's key Articles.

November 5, 2025 Phys.org

Ancient trees' inefficient photorespiration may have helped stabilize Earth's atmosphere during last ice age

A team of researchers, including Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra, examined preserved trees to understand how plants responded to the low carbon dioxide levels and cooler temperatures of the last glacial period, about 20,000 years ago.

November 5, 2025 Nature Geoscience

Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period

This paper, co-authored by Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra, supports the hypothesis of a negative feedback that limits atmospheric carbon dioxide decline during glacial periods.

November 3, 2025 Federation of American Scientists

Protecting the Health of Americans in the Face of Extreme Weather

IBES affiliate Stefanie Friedhoff (School of Public Health) is among the authors of a new report highlighting how extreme weather events are jeopardizing the health, safety and economic prospects of Americans.

November 3, 2025 The Brown Daily Herald

Brown-affiliated studies help explain overestimations in impact of Greenland Ice Sheet melting

This article features research and commentary from IBES Professor Laurence C. Smith.

November 1, 2025 The New York Times

Take a Deep Breath? How Bad Air Affects Your Marathon Finish Time

Allan Just, Associate IBES and Epidemiology Professor, and Joseph Braun, Professor of Epidemiology and an IBES Faculty Fellow, are among the authors of a study finding that poor air quality negatively affects marathon finish times.

October 28, 2025 News from IBES

Modeling microplastics: Brown’s role in a $7M coastal initiative

IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is the leading Brown faculty member involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities.

October 27, 2025 News from IBES

WATCH | “Subjects of the Sun”: Rethinking solar justice with Myles Lennon

During an October 18 book talk, Assistant Professor Myles Lennon challenged audiences to see solar energy as not only a climate solution, but a reflection of deeper social and economic inequities.

October 17, 2025 npj Ocean Sustainability

The Central Arctic Ocean as a beacon of hope for the global ocean

IBES and DEEPS Professor Amanda Lynch co-authored this commentary, which states that, if done well, the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement "can provide a model for sustainable ocean management around the world."

October 17, 2025 The Guardian

Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says

Rainforest Reserves Australia misleadingly cited research by Visiting Professor Robert Brulle, an expert on global climate obstruction, in a submission to Australia's Senate inquiry on misinformation and disinformation. Brulle offered commentary on the matter.

October 16, 2025 University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability

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