Climate Change
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Crises of rising heat, lack of trees, impact vulnerable communities across Massachusetts
State and local officials sat down for a roundtable discussion inside ASEC.
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Clark University hosts leaders to discuss extreme heat
Under the midday sun on the plaza outside Clark University’s Shaich Center, Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer announced the appointment of the state’s first-ever Heat Resilience Officer, Katie Schlick.
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New class to examine how art captures climate change over centuries
Students will probe themes of power and access in landscape paintings
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Leo Kerz ’26 has tracked the echoes in ecosystems
Leo Kerz ’26 collects 63,000 nature recordings to track ecosystem health
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Clark master’s students analyze water quality, impacts of climate change in Mexico
After six months conducting research and surveys in Mexico’s Valle de Bravo, Valeria Obregon Diaz, ES&P ’26, and Catalina Cuervo Maldonado, ES&P ’26, discovered pathogens and chemicals in the water and a lack of health insurance and air conditioning in a region with rising temperatures and notable heat-related illnesses.
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Can humanity ever attain a shared ‘green’ future?
Our shared climate future, and the imperative to improve its prospects for all of us, brought together a panel of thought leaders and an audience eager to hear their perspectives at the Climate Forum in Tilton Hall on April 13.
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The climate crisis will be the focus of April 13 Clark forum
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will moderate a panel with Mindy Lubber, CEO of Ceres, and Lou Leonard, D.J.A. Dean of the School of Climate, Environment, and Society.
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Why do traveling icebergs speed up in warmer ocean waters?
The physics behind ice blocks’ melting helps propel them, Clark-Paris study reveals
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Sprinting to space: Goddard, NASA, and Clark’s pathbreaking work in geospatial analytics
Robert Goddard’s groundbreaking innovation, developed in his Clark laboratory, launched the Space Age, propelling NASA’s rockets and eventually leading to the satellites that collect Earth observation data used in GIS — a field that Clark helped pioneer.
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NASA recognizes Clark’s geospatial research via recent awards, years of grant funding
Robert Goddard’s spirit of innovation lives on through NASA-funded research in the School of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability and the affiliated Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics.
