This paper, coauthored by IBES Professor Stephen Porder and Declan Johnson '24, suggests that wood vaults are a promising emissions-reduction strategy, but challenges remain.

Assistant Professor of Environment and Society Rachel Wetts examines how the social value of education contributes to partisanship within climate debates.

IBES Professor Dov Sax coauthored this article, which highlights why ecology's space-for-time substitution method can be misleading, and makes suggestions for improving the reliability of ecological forecasts.

The first working paper from the Sustainable Education Research Initiative, led by IBES affiliate Matthew Kraft (Department of Education) and supported by an IBES Catalyst Research Award.

Article coauthor Jennifer Hadden, an IBES affiliate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, proposes a framework for understanding the basic infrastructure needs of people displaced by climate change during four phases: initiation, mobilization, pause and settle.

IBES Postdoc Sonam Futi Sherpa contributed to this study, which finds that all of the 28 most populous U.S. cities are sinking.

This article, written by Voss Postdoc Vanessa Koh, examines the nexus of the emergence of the agri-tech ecosystem in Singapore and concerns over climate change.

Jennifer Hadden, an IBES affiliate at the Watson Institute, penned with article alongside Aseem Prakash of the University of Washington.

IBES Fellow Yonsong Huang and former IBES postdoc Bumsoo Kim are among the authors of this study.

This study was conducted by members of Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra's lab, including an IBES postdoc and graduate affiliates.

Associate Professor Tyler Kartzinel's lab group collaborated with nonprofits in Kenya and Namibia to compare the diets and gut microbiomes of giraffes.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

"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.

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."

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."

"In this article, we demonstrate how the discourses and strategies of local opposition groups are influenced by relationships with national-level groups and fossil fuel interests," write members of the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab.

IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is a coauthor on this new paper.

Environmental Studies & Sciences concentrator Caitlyn Carpenter '26 is a coauthor of this study.

This study was authored by students and faculty of Brown's Alpert Medical School, including IBES Affiliate Kyle Denison Martin.

This report was co-authored by IBES alum Ken Schell-Smith '22.5.

New research from the Climate and Development Lab and Climate Social Science Network, fueled by IBES alums.

Elizabeth Fussell, professor of population studies and environment and society (Research), coauthored this new study.

IBES and Epidemiology Assistant Professor Rachel Baker is the lead author on this new study, which predicts greater outbreaks of enterovirus as climate change worsens.

This outreach magazine article highlights cave monitoring efforts in the Philippines led by former Voss Postdoc Natasha Sekhon.

Emily Hollenbeck PhD '18 and IBES Professor Dov Sax conducted field surveys of epiphyte distributions on three mountains in Central America and performed reciprocal transplant experiments on one mountain across sites that varied in elevation, temperature, and aridity.

IBES and Epidemiology Professor Allan Just is co-author on this paper, which asks: Do minoritized groups experience hotter summers than the area average, and do non-Hispanic white people experience cooler summers?

This major assessment volume, available for free from the IBES-based Climate Social Science Network and Oxford University Press, explores the forces blocking climate action in and around Europe.

Reviewing recent literature on loss and damage finance, members of the IBES-based Climate Social Science Network consider how the new UNFCCC Loss and Damage Fund could be transformative for climate finance.

New research from Tyler Kartzinel, assistant professor of biology and environment and society, and IBES Fellow Yongsong Huang.

In this academic article, members of the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab ask: Who are the main actors in state-level climate disputes, and what coalitions emerge as they take positions on specific areas of clean energy policy? Who wins in these contests?

New research from Tyler Kartzinel, assistant professor of biology and environment and society.

This new research article, co-authored by IBES Postdoc Sonam Sherpa, disucsses how sinking land increases risk for thousands of coastal residents by 2050.

Associate IBES and Epidemiology Professor Allan Just co-authored this editorial accompanying a study that found daily and nighttime extreme heat exposure in the third trimester is associated with increased risks for preterm birth.

The Climate and Development Lab: Members of Brown's Climate and Development Lab analyzed 23,000 lobbying records, revealing the dominance of electric utilities and the coalitions that emerge around energy issues in Iowa.

Issue 6 of the Commodity Frontiers Journal, edited by IBES Lecturer Mindi Schneider and featuring pieces by Brian Lander, Assistant Professor in IBES and History, and recent ENVS graduate Charlotte Marcil '23.

A new research paper by Postdoc Research Associate Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun and IBES and Biology Assistant Professor Tyler Kartzinel.

A new report from the Climate and Development lab, a student-faculty think tank led by IBES Professor Timmons Roberts.

Ahead of COP 28, an issue paper from the Climate Social Science Network (housed at IBES) reviews the history of Saudi Arabia’s role in global climate negotiations. It finds the Saudi Arabian state regards the UN climate talks and IPCC as diplomatic areas where it must slow, obstruct and – if need be – block progress. Co-authored by IBES and Sociology Professor Timmons Roberts.

Elizabeth Fussell (Professor in Population Studies and Environment and Society, Research) is among the authors of NCA5. You can read her work in Chapter 20, "Social Systems and Justice," which is the report's first-ever chapter dedicated to social science.