Dawn King's popular IBES course facilitates community partnership and interdisciplinary study.

The sprawling volcanic islands of Indonesia are famed for their lush, tropical flora; but during the last ice age, the region's rainforests were instead dry savannas where it rained only half as much as it does today.

Physical geographer Samiah Moustafa joins the roster of IBES Fellows this Fall as Visiting Assistant Professor of Environment and Society.

Our environment oozes with chemical contaminants. They lurk in our food, our furniture, our cleaning supplies, and our medicine cabinets. But what effect are they having on the most vulnerable among us—our children?

Chances are, the last time you were at the beach, ocean physics wasn't paramount on your mind. However, that glistening expanse of frothy blue is more than just a pretty sight. In fact, it is one of the biggest drivers of both weather and climate on Earth.

Each year, hurricanes and tropical cyclones pose a looming threat to countries all over the world—not only for fear of life and limb, but also for their catastrophic effects on regional economies.

The Earth's climate is changing rapidly, and effects of this transition are evident on all scales. Despite the fact that most people acknowledge the reality of climate change, however, few appear to take meaningful action to combat it.

Mashapaug Pond, in southwest Providence, was once the site of a bustling industrial plant called the Gorham Manufacturing Company. From the late-19th century until the middle of the 21st, the Gorham factory churned out some of the country's finest silverware and bronze casts, all the while pumping large quantities of effluent into the soil and water.

Brian Lander, formerly a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University, joins the ranks of IBES fellows this fall as Assistant Professor of History.

Nature is full of surprising interactions between species. Whether it's by working together, avoiding each other, competing with one another, or making a meal out of one another, species are connected in a variety of ways.

The Earth Science Women's Network, a networking organization for women geoscientists, will be presented with a Special Award at this year's annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

Effective January 1, 2017, Leah VanWey, Professor of Sociology and current Deputy Director of Research at IBES, will become Brown's newest Associate Provost for Academic Space.

The transparency gap—the distance between donor countries' pledged climate adaptation finance and the trackable reality—has collectively expanded since the Paris negotiations, say researchers from AdaptationWatch in their new report Towards Transparency.

IBES sociologist Scott Frickel and collaborators have released a new book, out today from Rutgers University Press.

One fine day in the 9th century BCE, bands of traders and colonists from the Middle East set sail across the Mediterranean Sea, headed for the island of Sardinia. There, they found an indigenous society living among giant stone towers called nuraghi, occupying modest dwellings built into the rocky monuments and herding cattle for sustenance.