Oil companies like to point to the demise of the whaling industry as an example of market-based energy solutions. The reality is much more complicated.

A new report from an IBES research team analyzing climate and energy lobbying records details the actors working against climate action in Massachusetts.

Severe storms. Heat waves. Rising seas. New England is already seeing the impacts of climate change, and scientists project they will become more severe and deadly, shaping how we live and work in the northeastern U.S. This week on NEXT, in a special ahead of Inauguration Day, the New England News Collaborative and America Amplified look at climate change in our region and how President-elect Joe Biden’s administration could affect climate action in the future. Biden has proposed the most ambitious climate platform of any incoming U.S. president in history.

Last year the Black Lives Matter movement that intensified with the high-profile deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others led to heightened conversations nationwide around institutional discrimination against marginalized groups in workplaces, academia and government.

Women and minorities in the earth and atmospheric sciences were already on it.

Climate researchers describe a new method of tracking the ancient history of the westerly winds—a proxy for what we may experience in a future warming world.

An agreed system for measuring funding of green projects in poorer nations will be vital to achieving action on climate change in 2021.

Combining traditional "pick and trowel" field work with a sweeping birds-eye view.

“Deep Adaptation” made people confront the end of the world from climate change. Does it matter if it’s not correct?

Climate activists and some ad industry figures are calling on agencies to declare or dump their Big Oil clients.

IBES fellow Scott Frickel and colleagues examine what that means beyond the 2020 elections.

Ex-secretary of state’s appointment as climate envoy signals issue as priority for new president

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.

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.

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.

Our very existence is threatened by a warming world. Why aren’t we doing more?

Elise Dadourian's film, The Global Food Waste Crisis and The Danish Solution, has gained widespread recognition in the last few months.

In Fall 2019, sustainable investing advocate and Brown instructor Cary Krosinsky approached 12 Brown University students to contribute to his recent book, "Modern China: Financial Cooperation for Solving Sustainability Challenges."

IBES offers a competitive summer internship for undergraduates in partnership with the Leadership Alliance.

Senior Elise Dadourian knows that our planet has a looming problem: With 10 billion mouths to feed forecasted by 2050 and a food system already made unstable by socioeconomic factors and a changing climate, food waste is a topic that everyone should be concerned about.

A new study of lizards in countries struck by hurricanes suggests cataclysmic weather can reshape entire species.

In his new book, Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith explores a sweeping natural history of the world's rivers and their ancient, complex relationship with human civilization.

Join us for a virtual book launch of Rivers of Power, to take place on YouTube on April 21, 2020 at 12:00pm (EDT).

Assistant Provost for Sustainability, and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Environment and Society Stephen Porder has been named Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair for the Fall 2020 semester.

Meredith K. Hastings, Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences & Environment and Society, has agreed to serve as deputy director of IBES, effective July 1, 2020.

Dov F. Sax, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Environment and Society, has agreed to serve as interim director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), effective July 1, 2020.

Curt Spalding, the former EPA regional director who’s now at Brown, researches how communities can respond to climate change.

IBES Director Amanda Lynch has always wanted to take students to the Arctic. And last month, she finally got the opportunity.

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.