Climate Change
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In Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, researchers study, model future climate change scenarios
As part of a $750,000 NASA-funded project, professors Gustavo Oliveira and Robert Gil Pontius Jr. of Clark’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society have been modeling future, competing scenarios of agricultural expansion, given climate change, in Brazil’s Cerrado, known as the region‘s ”Water Tank.”
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With AI’s assistance, researchers maximize Clark tool to reveal how our planet is changing
Working with Professor Pontius, Ph.D. student Antonio Fonseca aims to help scientists understand the ‘big picture’ in decades of land-cover data
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Clark strengthens academic partnership with Ethiopia’s Wollo University
A new partnership with Wollo University was was announced at a Clark lecture by Dr. Teferi Abate, a senior research anthropologist at Yale.
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‘We hear them, see them, and are with them’
At COP30, Clark supports Indigenous peoples’ fight to be heard
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ETH BiodivX team launches groundbreaking Indigenous-led conservation fund at COP 30 in Belém
Revolutionary endowment model puts Indigenous communities in control of conservation funding decisions, transforming biodiversity finance from the ground up
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Building a clean-energy future, brick by brick
Chemistry Professor Julio D’Arcy leads a student research team to develop state-of-the-art technology aimed at improving human lives.
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‘I just love getting my hands in the dirt’
From Massachusetts to Australia, Beatrice Altopp ’25, M.S. ’26, wants to protect local species
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Addressing the globe’s polycrisis
The mission of Clark University’s School of Climate, Environment, and Society can be summarized in one word, according to Lou Leonard, the school’s D.J.A. Spencer Dean, and that word is impact.
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Connecting sunlight and forests to curbing climate change
The climate benefits of some carbon projects may be overestimated because they don’t account for changes in albedo — the percentage of sunlight that a forest reflects or absorbs, making it cooler or hotter — in their calculations, according to Geography Professor Christopher Williams and his peers.
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‘I wanted to be in the communities’
From global to grassroots, Solange Biandaky-Badji, Ph.D. ’08, is a leader