IBES awarded grants to six core and affiliate faculty members, allowing them to conduct research that crosses boundaries and benefits communities, both at Brown and around the world.

Professor Nancy Jacobs, along with three Brown students and local partners, recently opened a new museum in Uganda to connect communities with endangered wildlife.

IBES Director Kim Cobb is one of dozens of scientists working to counter the Trump administration's efforts to weaken pollution regulations.

In her senior thesis, Morris explored how Maine’s climate action process can better include a group on the frontlines of climate change.

Urban Studies and Mathematics concentrator Rafael Ash ’26 is investigating how communities in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Warren, Rhode Island, adapt to their rapidly changing environments through democratic planning, local partnerships, and managed retreat strategies.

Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.

Assistant Professor Myles Lennon published his first book, “Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism,” over the summer.

Elodie Freymann, a primatologist and IBES Voss postdoctoral researcher, reflected on how Dr. Jane Goodall inspired her professionally and personally.

Professor Timmons Roberts virtually testified before the Australian Parliament's Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy, answering senators' questions and detailing his climate obstruction research.

Professor Meredith Hastings discussed the air quality in Providence, as monitored through her Breathe Providence project.

This article includes commentary from Teaching Professor Kurt Teichert, a member of the Energy Efficiency Council. 

Associate Professor Tyler Kartzinel offered commentary for this article.

Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra is co-author of this study, which provides a new framework for examining how organisms have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds, thousands, or millions of years.

Jennifer Hadden, an IBES affiliate at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs, co-penned this commentary, which notes that "the current U.S. housing policy regime creates tradeoffs between promoting equity and addressing climate risk."

This paper, coauthored by IBES Professor Stephen Porder and Declan Johnson '24, suggests that wood vaults are a promising emissions-reduction strategy, but challenges remain.