News Archive

January 27, 2025 The Boston Globe

Woburn startup could give US solar industry a second chance

This article includes commentary from Professor of Engineering Nitin Padture, an IBES affiliate, on the life expectancies of different types of solar collectors.

January 26, 2025 The Brown Daily Herald

The race against pollution: Air quality impacts marathon times, Brown study finds

New research from IBES Associate Professor Allan Just and Faculty Fellow Joseph Braun, both epidemiologists in the Brown University School of Public Health, suggests that poor air quality increases marathon runners' race times.

January 24, 2025 NewScientist

Carbon removal schemes on farms could change Earth’s reflectivity

This article features forthcoming research from IBES Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra and Faculty Fellow Brad Marston, a professor of physics.

January 22, 2025 WBUR

Is offshore wind driving whales ‘crazy?’ Science says no

This article references research by and includes commentary from IBES Professor Timmons Roberts, who led a report that found links between think tanks and conservative donors who are known to block climate policy in support of fossil-fuel interests.

January 21, 2025 The New York Times

Did Christopher Columbus Jump-Start the Climate Crisis?

IBES Fellow Elizabeth Rush penned this book review of "Dark Laboratory" by Tao Leigh Goffe.

January 18, 2025 Heatmap News

What Climate Insiders See for 2025, the Trump Era, and Beyond

Heatmap queried more than 30 climate insiders, including IBES Director Kim Cobb, about the future of environmental policy.

January 16, 2025 Brown Alumni Magazine

Capitalism to the Rescue?

Ricardo Bayon ’89, an IBES advisory council member and founder of Encourage Capital, teaches the ever-popular course "Finance and the Environment" at Brown.

January 14, 2025 Asbury Park Press

New Jersey offshore wind industry faces new lawsuit and Trump executive order

This article cites a report from IBES' Climate and Development Lab, which found many of New Jersey's anti-offshore wind groups are affiliated with a Delaware-based libertarian think tank that is aligned with fossil fuel advocates.

January 14, 2025 Epicenter Podcast

Exploring Commodity Frontiers

Myles Lennon, assistant professor in IBES and the Department of Anthropology, joined fellow scholars to discuss the expansion of capitalism and commodities, including renewable energy.

January 14, 2025 Jefferson Public Radio

They disagree on offshore wind, but they’re working together to fight disinformation

This article cites a report from IBES' Climate and Development Lab, which found that much of the funding behind offshore wind opposition groups comes from entities with close ties to the oil and gas industry.

January 12, 2025 Environmental Research

XIS-temperature: A daily spatiotemporal machine-learning model for air temperature in the contiguous United States

IBES and Epidemiology Associate Professor Allan Just led the development of this state-of-the-art national spatiotemporal exposure model, reconstructing daily temperature estimates for use in a wide range of health studies.

January 11, 2025 Portland Press Herald

Opinion: Greenland must be regarded as a partner, not a prize

IBES and DEEPS Professor Amanda Lynch co-authored this opinion piece.

January 10, 2025 The Daily Yonder

Q&A: Charting the Environmental History of the Arctic

IBES and History Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth was interviewed about how the rural region between Canada and Russia has been transformed by colonialism and climate change.

January 9, 2025 Heatmap News

Are Anti-Renewables Activists Going Unchallenged?

IBES and Sociology Professor Timmons Roberts discussed why climate advocates should know "what strategies and the tactics are being used" by anti-renewables activists.

January 7, 2025 The Boston Globe

From whales and windmills in Mass. to annexing the Panama Canal: 5 takeaways from Trump’s press conference

This article mentions a report by IBES' Climate and Development Lab on misinformation spread by anti-offshore wind interest groups.

January 7, 2025 American Ethnologist

Improperty: Black land stewardship and the paradox of liberation on stolen land

IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon discusses "improperty": "modes of ownership that paradoxically unsettle the logics of accumulation and enclosure that are proper to the property form."

January 3, 2025 NPR

Is there any reason for the U.S. to express an interest in buying Greenland?

NPR's Leila Fadel spoke with IBES and DEEPS Professor Amanda Lynch about why president-elect Donald Trump is seeking to take control of Greenland and Panama.

December 31, 2024 The New York Times

Trump Wants Greenland and the Panama Canal. It’s About Climate.

Amanda Lynch, an IBES and DEEPS professor who has studied climate change in the Arctic for nearly 30 years, offered commentary about the dangers of new trade routes around Greenland.

December 29, 2024 USA Today

'Science and realism': Governments plan for doomsday climate scenarios

"Preparation [for the effects of climate change] involves science and realism about the scale of the effects, who will be most affected, and what can be done," IBES Fellow Baylor-Fox Kemper commented.

December 23, 2024 Utah Public Radio

How a stark warning about the Great Salt Lake led Utah lawmakers to act

Baylor Fox-Kemper, an IBES Fellow and co-author of a study that looks at how climate scientists communicate risk, offered commentary for this article.

December 19, 2024 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Stable isotope tempestology of tropical cyclones across the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean basins

IBES Director Kim Cobb is among the researchers who contributed to this study, which investigates past hurricanes in order to reduce future risk.

December 18, 2024 Sports Medicine

Running on Fumes: An Analysis of Fine Particulate Matter's Impact on Finish Times in Nine Major US Marathons, 2003-2019

IBES Associate Professor Allan Just and Faculty Fellow Joseph Braun, both epidemiologists in the School of Public Health, contributed to this study.

December 18, 2024 News from Brown

For optimal marathon performance, check training plan, gear, nutrition, weather — and air quality?

Analyzing 16 years of race results and air pollution levels, a team of researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health found that poor air quality had a negative effect on marathon times.

December 17, 2024 The Atlantic

Bogotá’s Water Rationing Is a Preview

IBES Faculty Fellow Elizabeth Rush penned this article.

December 16, 2024 The Public's Radio

Judge expands attorney’s authority over Rhode Island Recycled Metals

This article cites work from Breathe Providence, a community-focused air quality monitoring network led by IBES Professor Meredith Hastings.

December 16, 2024 News from IBES

Celebrating the life and legacy of Professor Emeritus Harold Ward

Ward, the architect of environmental studies at Brown, passed away on December 4, 2024.

December 12, 2024 The New York Times

Trump's choice to run energy says fossil fuels are virtuous

Visiting Professor of Environment and Society Robert Brulle offered commentary on fossil fuel misinformation campaigns.

December 11, 2024 The Brown Daily Herald

Five years of Spin scooters: Are community members dizzy?

IBES Senior Lecturer Kurt Teichert weighed in on how Spin scooters fit into the sustainable transportation landscape.

December 10, 2024 Forbes

30 Under 30: Transportation & Mobility

IBES aluma Maggie Bachenberg '22, cofounder of the biking navigation app Pointz, is among Forbes's 30 Under 30 for Transportation & Mobility.

December 10, 2024 Greater Greater Washington

Why traffic never gets better

“If you keep adding lanes because you want to reduce traffic congestion, you have to be really determined not to learn from history,” commented IBES Affiliate and Economics Professor Matthew Turner.

December 9, 2024 The Brown Daily Herald

‘Possibly’ podcast takes a bite-sized approach to tackling environmental questions

Co-produced by IBES and The Public’s Radio, Possibly's four-minute episodes address different questions about environmental concerns “ranging from those about personal choices to huge systemic issues,” The Herald reports.

December 6, 2024 Nature Geoscience

The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling

Correspondence by IBES Fellow James Russell and colleagues on how a strategic expansion of continental drilling efforts would help advance paleoclimate research.

December 5, 2024 Distillations Magazine

Proxies for Justice

"The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied," former Voss Postdoc Researchers Jayson Maurice Porter and Lina C.
Lina C. Pérez-Angel write in this article. "Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.

December 5, 2024 National Association of Science Writers

What to do when your subjects can’t speak to you? Science writers discuss tricks of portraying nonhuman characters

Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society Bathsheba Demuth participated in this National Association of Science Writers workshop.

December 5, 2024 Big Biology Podcast

What does it take to change the world?

Stephen Porder, Brown's associate provost for sustainability and a professor in IBES and EEOB, discussed his book, Elemental, and sustainable actions that people all can take to reduce their environmental impact.

December 5, 2024 EcoRI News

Report: Anti-Wind Groups in Southern New England Parrot Views of Fossil Fuel-Backed Right-Wing Think Tanks

A new report from the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab finds that expertise from nationwide opponents of renewables offers scripts and guidance to local anti-wind activists.

December 4, 2024 News from IBES

Equitable Climate Futures initiative kicks off with faculty town hall

The initiative is a means to kick-starting interdisciplinary teams to address environmental issues.

December 3, 2024 The Brown Daily Herald

RI’s beaches are slipping away as state legislators search for solution

IBES Director Kim Cobb, who was recently appointed to The Rhode Island Legislative Study Commission on Climate Change Impacts and Solutions, offered commentary on beach erosion and climate change.

December 3, 2024 Atmos

Beholding the Arctic’s Wonders—And Its Melting Future

IBES and DEEPS Professor Amanda Lynch offered commentary about how the Arctic landscape could change in the coming years.

December 2, 2024 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

From reduction to regeneration: Environmental justice and ecological unity in the IRA era

In this peer-reviewed article, IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon "calls on the [environmental justice] movement to shift from the reductive framework at the heart of the IRA to a regenerative framework aligned with the movement's 'ecological unity' principle."

December 1, 2024 Current Anthropology

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