"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.