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Jeanne Loewenstein Receives Excellence Award for Service
Loewenstein, IBES' academic program manager, has earned a reputation for her dedication to students' learning and wellbeing.
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IBES Professor Laurence C. Smith offered commentary for this article.
IBES and Sociology Professor Scott Frickel offered commentary about science organizing and activism.
IBES Director Kim Cobb offered commentary for this article, noting that a new study offers strong evidence linking recent global warming to the burning of fossil fuels.
IBES and Epidemiology Associate Professor Allan Just led the development of this state-of-the-art national spatiotemporal exposure model, which reconstructs daily particulate air pollution estimates for use in a wide range of health studies.
News from IBES
Students serve as environmental problem-solvers in ENVS 0110
IBES' signature class, “Humans, Nature, and the Environment,” bridges the gap between classroom learning and real-world solutions, connecting first- and second-year students with local organizations to address pressing environmental issues.
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.
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.
This article features forthcoming research from IBES Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra and Faculty Fellow Brad Marston, a professor of physics.
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.
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.
Heatmap queried more than 30 climate insiders, including IBES Director Kim Cobb, about the future of environmental policy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This article mentions a report by IBES' Climate and Development Lab on misinformation spread by anti-offshore wind interest groups.
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."
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
The Atlantic
Bogotá’s Water Rationing Is a Preview
IBES Faculty Fellow Elizabeth Rush penned this article.
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.
Ward, the architect of environmental studies at Brown, passed away on December 4, 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.
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.
IBES aluma Maggie Bachenberg '22, cofounder of the biking navigation app Pointz, is among Forbes's 30 Under 30 for Transportation & Mobility.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lina C. Pérez-Angel write in this article. "Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
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.
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.
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.
The initiative is a means to kick-starting interdisciplinary teams to address environmental issues.
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.
IBES and DEEPS Professor Amanda Lynch offered commentary about how the Arctic landscape could change in the coming years.
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."
Current Anthropology
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry
IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon argues that "environmental solutionism is the rhetorical offspring of polluting industries, masking exploitative corporate practices with a facade of apolitical consensus."
School Construction News
Brown University Continues to Go Green
This article highlights how Dry Ridge solar farm is generating enough power to offset two-thirds of Brown's on-campus electricity consumption and features commentary from IBES Professor Stephen Porder.
Trending Globally: Politics and Policy
Amidst melting glaciers and rising seas, finding hope for the future on an Antarctic voyage
IBES Fellow Elizabeth Rush is featured on this episode of the Watson Institute's "Trending Globally" podcast.
November 25, 2024
News from Brown
Study reveals effectiveness of environment-focused litigation in the U.S., but also large inequalities
A team of researchers analyzed more than 25,000 civil lawsuits, gleaning insights on regional disparities in environmental law and opportunities to broaden impact.