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Learn more about what's going on at IBES — from innovative new research and inspiring student endeavors to community gatherings around environmental issues, and more.
News and Events
Learn more about what's going on at IBES — from innovative new research and inspiring student endeavors to community gatherings around environmental issues, and more.
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Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters
Brown University researchers have shown that tiny channels between graphene sheets can be aligned in a way that makes them ideal for water filtration.
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A new report from an IBES research team analyzing climate and energy lobbying records details the actors working against climate action in Massachusetts.
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A previously problematic molecule turns out to be a reliable proxy for reconstructing sea ice, a new study by Brown University researchers shows.
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In the mid-19th century, a parade of whaling ships set sail from New England. One by one, they swept down the United States’ Atlantic coast, circled South America’s Cape Horn, and finally cruised northward, toward the Arctic edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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A handful of dedicated IBES scholars are working to trace the arc of global sea level rise: from the melting ice sheets, into the swelling oceans and onto the shores of vulnerable communities like Providence. Together, the researchers aim to chart a new course forward — staving off sea level rise where it is possible and fortifying the environments and societies where it is not.
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The Climate Social Science Network, based at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, will bring together leading scholars to catalyze collaborative research on the interests that are stalling climate action.
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In the News
An agreed system for measuring funding of green projects in poorer nations will be vital to achieving action on climate change in 2021.
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The New York Times
The Darkest Timeline
“Deep Adaptation” made people confront the end of the world from climate change. Does it matter if it’s not correct?
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Today's advertising, lobbying, and public-relations firms help provide the rationalizations and the justifications that slow the pace of climate change action. IBES fellow Robert Brulle studies such marketing extensively, as described in The New Yorker.
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Scientific American
Scientists Are Becoming More Politically Engaged
IBES fellow Scott Frickel and colleagues examine what that means beyond the 2020 elections.
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Ex-secretary of state’s appointment as climate envoy signals issue as priority for new president
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The New York Times
Hurricanes Are Reshaping Evolution Across the Caribbean
A new study of lizards in countries struck by hurricanes suggests cataclysmic weather can reshape entire species.
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Curt Spalding, the former EPA regional director who’s now at Brown, researches how communities can respond to climate change.
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For nearly 30 years, America’s four biggest rail companies—which move the majority of the country’s coal—have spent millions to deny climate science and block climate policy.
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