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.

Today, the Sumatran rhinoceros, true to its name, is a tropical animal native only to remote mountains; however, as recently as a few thousand years ago, this creature thrived across an enormous range—from the tropics to North China. This, according to new research by Brian Lander in Current Biology.

Former graduate affiliate turned Lynch Lab postdoc Chelsea Parker has authored a paper on her PhD work now out in the journal Climate Dynamics.

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Tyler Kartzinel has been elected an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

Dr. John P. Holdren, Senior Advisor to the President at Woods Hole Research Center and former Science Advisor and Director to President Barack Obama, visited the Institute on Thursday, February 15th and delivered a lecture entitled "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?"

IBES fellow Joseph Braun has been named one of 20 Pioneers Under 40 in Environmental Public Health by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), a prestigious resource for evidence-based science and shared knowledge regarding human health.