The goal to eliminate campus greenhouse gas emissions over the next two decades includes taking immediate steps to reduce emissions by 75 percent below 2017-18 levels by 2025.
January in Australia brought record high temperatures, intense winds, and extreme flash-flooding events. And despite Australia's normally hot climate, the heat seen there in recent days is more extreme than ever.
As a young child in China, Jiajue Chai wondered why the air quality was so variable. One day it was crystal clear, the next dusty, and the next so hazy that it was difficult to breathe.
Chris Horvat, a postdoctoral scholar whose regular research on polar ice floes is temporarily derailed by the government shutdown, is using a strange ice disk (and internet sensation) as a research analog for sea ice.
Providence business leaders joined the Rhode Island academic community Jan. 15 and 16 for the "Providence Resiliency Workshop," an event hosted at the University and designed to highlight the challenges climate change presents for Providence.
A new Brown initiative with Constellation and Energy Development Partners will transform a former gravel pit in North Kingstown into Rhode Island’s highest-capacity contiguous solar generation project.
When Bathsheba Demuth '06, '07 AM decided to go for a hike on her first day in Old Crow, Yukon, she didn't realize it was grizzly bear season. Walking on a trail through dense undergrowth, Demuth soon came across a large paw print filling with water. Looking down, Demuth saw her own tracks begin to submerge. The grizzly lurked just ahead.
Brown epidemiologist and associate dean David Savitz led the Michigan governor’s PFAS Science Advisory Committee, focusing on the health impacts of a class of toxic contaminants.
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.
Brown epidemiologist Gregory Wellenius was a contributing author to the Fourth National Climate Assessment, focusing on the risks and impacts residents of the Northeast will face.
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.
Lynch, a climate scientist who is active in environmental policy research, will discuss the implications of the rapidly advancing Anthropocene and the intersection of environmental policy and human rights.
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.
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.
Human geographer Kai Bosworth has always been fascinated by environmental social movements surrounding land ethics, especially in the rural American Midwest and West.
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.
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.
With the University nearing its sustainability goals for 2020 and the threat of climate change growing more severe, Brown is evaluating plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
Baylor Fox-Kemper will be a coordinating lead author for a key chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s next global climate assessment report.
A series of public events and exhibitions staged in April by five University partner programs will confront climate change from a wide variety of perspectives.
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.
Researchers have developed a new statistical understanding of how turbulent flows called mesoscale eddies dissipate their energy, which could be helpful in creating better ocean and climate models.
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.
Until her Voss Fellowship, Loren Albert did emissions research by climbing trees. Now, with the help of Assistant Professor Jim Kellner and drone technology, she has the whole forest in her sights.
In a new study, IBES sabbatical visitor Laurence C. Smith, affiliated with UCLA, and his team are reinforcing the importance of collaboration in assessing the effects of climate change.
Conversion from steam to hot-water heating on campus will increase energy efficiency and assist the University in meeting its goals for reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.