Climate Change
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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.
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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