Visiting Professor Robert Brulle offered commentary on energy security and fossil fuel companies' PR tactics.
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Professor Stephen Porder offered commentary on solar power as a viable alternative to oil.
Mother Jones
Thanks to Trump, Petro-Imperialism Is Back
IBES affiliate Jeff Colgan, a professor of political science and director of the Climate Solutions Lab, discussed the role of oil in recent U.S. military actions and the national security advantages of solar and wind energy.
March 11, 2026
News From Education
Where Climate Meets the Classroom: RI Leaders on Sustainable Schools and the Future of Environmental Education
As part of Brown Climate Week, practitioners from across Rhode Island explored how education policy, school leadership, and environmental partnerships shape climate learning in schools.
The Brown Daily Herald
New study advances modeling of ocean’s finer details
IBES Fellow and DEEPS Professor Baylor Fox-Kemper co-authored a recent study showing how small-scale ocean processes have substantial effects on global model results.
March 10, 2026
News from Brown
New sensor network makes real-time flooding, air-quality data available to Rhode Island communities
Data from flood sensors that track coastal and roadway flooding, along with air-quality readings and weather information, are freely available to the public through a new dashboard.
National Geographic
These frog mating calls may also serve as weather reports
Voss Postdoctoral Researcher Luke Larter offered commentary on the implications of a new study that suggests female frogs listen for changes in the male calls as a signal for when it’s warm enough to mate.
The Brown Daily Herald
The tropics may be getting even hotter than expected, Brown researchers find
Former Voss Postdoc and current IBES instructor Lina C. Pérez-Angel authored a recent study which found that tropical warming may be occurring to an even greater degree than previously expected.
The Brown Daily Herald
Students host seventh annual conference on sustainable investing
Students, policy experts, and industry professionals in finance and sustainability gathered on campus for the student-run Future of Sustainable Investing Conference, part of Brown Climate Week.
The Brown Daily Herald
Brown’s first-ever Climate Week celebrates education, innovation
The Herald spoke with Climate Week organizers and participants to understand how different industries and corners of academia can contribute to climate solutions.
The Brown Daily Herald
Ancient plant wax preserved in lakes reveals insights into climate patterns
Assistant Professor Daniel Ibarra coauthored a study that investigates ancient plant waxes preserved in sediments from two Utah lakes.
This opinion article quotes IBES Visiting Professor Robert Brulle, an expert on climate obstruction.
Professor of Education and IBES faculty affiliate Matthew Kraft conducted a nationwide assessment of U.S. PreK-12 public and private schools’ proximity to known environmental hazard sites.
IBES Affiliate Jeff Colgan, a professor of political science and international studies and director of Brown's Climate Solutions Lab, co-authored a recent paper that assesses the merits and weaknesses of climate realism, which favors long-term climate investments over near-term solutions.
With the help of an IBES Catalyst Research Award, Associate Professor of History and IBES Faculty Affiliate Lukas Rieppel has teamed up with Oglala Lakota scholar Craig Howe to help people further understand the Earth’s history.
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Invisible Harms: Drug-Related Deaths Spike After Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
IBES and Epidemiology Professor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou is among the co-authors of a recent study that links tropical cyclones to spikes in drug-related deaths for months after impact.
IBES Professor Timmons Roberts expressed support for a proposed bill that would hold fossil fuel companies financially responsible for their emissions.
Testifying before the RI House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, IBES Professor Stephen Porder discussed how the state could electrify the economy to meet mandates outlined in the Act on Climate.
Capital News Service
Climate action moves forward despite Trump’s policy rollbacks. Will it be enough?
Baylor Fox-Kemper, an IBES Faculty Fellow and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, offered commentary on the clean-energy economy and climate change.
University of Colorado Boulder
Some tropical land may experience stronger-than-expected warming under climate change
A new study led by former IBES Voss Postdoc Lina Pérez-Angel used lake sediments from the Colombian Andes to reveal that, when the planet warmed millions of years ago under carbon dioxide levels similar to today’s, tropical land heated up nearly twice as much as the ocean.
Erica Walker, an IBES Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, discussed her new research project, for which students in Mississippi will be trained to collect air quality, noise, and light pollution measurements.
Brown Bookstore
2025-2026 Brown University Book Award
"Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait" by IBES and History Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth has been selected as the 2025-2026 Brown University Book Award.
January 30, 2026
News from Brown
Childhood lead exposure associated with increased depressive symptoms in adolescence
A federally funded study led by Brown University researchers links increased childhood blood lead concentrations with increased depressive symptoms in adolescence, with larger increases when exposure occurred later in childhood.
Rhode Island House of Representatives
Stephen Porder Testifies to RI House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
"There is no way to comply with the Act on Climate and continue to rely on gas and oil," IBES Professor Stephen Porder testified at the Rhode Island State House.
Corwin Zigler, a professor of biostatistics and an IBES affiliate, was consulted as an expert for this reporting.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Erica Walker, an IBES affiliate faculty member, offered commentary on the public health impact of pellet mills in the American South, which are 50% more likely to be located in communities with a high proportion of poor and nonwhite residents.
American Physical Society
Brad Marston on science, democracy, and the hard work ahead
Brad Marston — an IBES faculty fellow, professor of physics, and 2026 president of the American Physical Society — discussed his research and priorities for the year ahead, including focusing on climate science and the role of democracy in scientific discovery.
Professor of Engineering Yue Qi, an IBES affiliate and deputy director of Brown's Initiative for Sustainable Energy, is a senior author on a study that found a nanoscale silver coating could be the key to making ultra-powerful solid-state batteries work.
This opinion piece cites recent research from the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab, led by Professor Timmons Roberts.
According to a new report from the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab, opposition to climate legislation from Rhode Island’s main utility company and business interests are slowing climate legislation in the state.
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Interpersonal and Self-Inflicted Violence Linked to Temperature Spikes
This article relays key findings from a new study of which Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, a professor at IBES and the School of Public Health, is a co-author.
bioGraphic
Pachyderm Pharmacies
Voss Postdoc Elodie Freymann, who studies self-medicating behavior among chimpanzees in Uganda, offered commentary about new research on elephants' search for medicinal plants.
IBES Director Kim Cobb discussed the physical and economic toll of 2025's most devastating weather events, including the Palisades and Eaton Fires and Hurricane Melissa.
This letter to the editor cites research from the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab.
IBES Director Kim Cobb was interviewed about the role of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Trump administration's recent moves to shutter it.
IBES Fellow Baylor-Fox Kemper, a professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, offered commentary for this article.
IBES Director Kim Cobb described the National Center for Atmospheric Research as “the beating heart of our field” and called its end “unthinkable.”
IBES Director Kim Cobb called plans to shutter the National Center for Atmospheric Research "a national security risk."
Canary Media
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
Professor Timmons Roberts offered commentary on opposition to offshore wind, which is often based in misinformation.
PEN America
Snapshots of Censorship: Tilting at Windmills
Professor Timmons Roberts penned this column, which reflects on recent political threats to academic research.
Yue Qi — an engineering professor, IBES affiliate, and deputy director of Brown's Initiative for Sustainable Energy — discussed her new study, which offers guidance for designing sodium-ion batteries.
The Brown Daily Herald
Fighting the College Hill floods: Brown takes steps to contain stormwater
IBES Director Kim Cobb offered commentary on Brown's efforts to increase climate resilience on campus.
The New York Times
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
IBES Professor Timmons Roberts offered commentary on "sophisticated and extremely well funded" disinformation campaigns that have "succeeded at undermining climate action globally.”
November 26, 2025
News from Brown
Expanding seasonal immunization access could minimize off-season RSV epidemics
Researchers found differences in how respiratory syncytial virus spreads among children in rural versus urban communities and concluded that year-round immunizations would minimize risks of large seasonal outbreaks.
This article cites commentary from IBES Director Kim Cobb, who discussed COP30 and the global state of clean energy on CNN.
The IBES-based Climate Social Science Network, led by Professor Timmons Roberts, recently released "Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment," which explores who is blocking action on climate change and how they are doing it.
November 20, 2025
News from Brown
Research provides new design specs for burgeoning sodium-ion batteries
A study provides new guidance for designing sodium-ion batteries, which are emerging as a less expensive and more environmentally friendly complement to lithium-based batteries.
The Brown Daily Herald
Brown begins work on $7 million microplastics research initiative
IBES Fellow Baylor Fox Kemper and Affiliate Mara Freilich, both faculty members in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, are among the Brown researchers involved in the new SIMCoast initiative.
Bay to Bay News
Eidman: Big Oil is duping us about offshore wind
This column cites reports from researchers at the IBES-based Climate and Development Lab.
Earth Journalism Network
Countries Sign A Declaration To Fight Climate Disinformation At COP30
IBES Professor Timmons Roberts is among the prominent voices who advocated against climate disinformation at COP30 in Brazil.
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