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Facing Future

The Phosphorus Conundrum

IBES Professor Stephen Porder and UVM Associate Professor Eric Roy, a former Voss postdoc, joined this episode of Facing Future to explain their work on the phosphorous cycle.
IBES Director Kim Cobb joined the AirTalk radio show to discuss Bill Gates's recent memo on climate change — in which he expresses concerns on how the climate crisis is being framed and addressed — and how should we talk about climate moving forward.
Allan Just, Associate IBES and Epidemiology Professor, and Joseph Braun, Professor of Epidemiology and an IBES Faculty Fellow, are among the authors of a study finding that poor air quality negatively affects marathon finish times.
Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

Timmons Roberts testifies before Australian Parliament

Professor Timmons Roberts virtually testified before the Australian Parliament's Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy, answering senators' questions and detailing his climate obstruction research.
The Wildlife Society

An herbivore by any other name

A study led by biologists in IBES and EEOB revealed that different circumstances lead herbivores to eat a much wider variety of plants than previously believed.
Professor of Population Studies and Environment and Society (Research) Elizabeth Fussell offered commentary on how New Orleans has changed since Hurricane Katrina, noting that 20 years later, the city is smaller, wealthier, and has fewer Black residents. 
Project Syndicate

Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization

IBES faculty affiliate Mark Blyth, a professor at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs, penned this article with Daniel Driscoll, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
The New York Review of Books

Where the Dogs Run

Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth penned this essay, which poignantly describes how declining salmon populations threaten the future of the Yukon River and its surrounding communities.