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.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society is pleased to announce the release of its latest edition of Earth Matters.

Senior IBES concentrator Mara Dolan has authored a piece about the intersection of feminism and climate justice in this month's Teen Vogue.

Attorney Kate Adams '86 has an impressive resume. Among other roles, she has been law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, trial attorney for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, partner at Sidley Austin LLP in New York, and senior vice president and general counsel of Honeywell, Inc.

The study shows that emissions can feasibly be reduced by as much as 80% over the next one to two decades.

Associate Professor of Epidemiology Gregory Wellenius has been appointed a core fellow at the Institute.

Populations and their surrounding environments are often inextricably intertwined. But what happens under colonial rule, when powerful empires try to override this complex relationship?

In the United States, waterfront locales have long been seen as desirable places to live. And, thanks to years of investments in adaptation to coastal storms, they have remained relatively safe as well.

Climate scientist and geochemist Daniel Enrique Ibarra knows just how vital water is to both natural and social ecosystems.

Climate change is widely considered one of the most alarming and urgent concerns of our time, but the United States has been slow to take meaningful action to address it.

Five thousand years ago, China was a very different place: a landscape of forests, grasslands and wetlands that were home to a diverse body of wildlife. It is now home to so many people that it is difficult to imagine the rhinos, elephants, and alligators that once lived there.

Thanks to its outsized effect on high latitudes, climate change is already causing substantial alterations in the Arctic physical environment.