Climate
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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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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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From crab blood to carbon hoarding
Caden Thomas ’27 gets down in the mud for marine research.
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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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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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‘We’re getting exactly what we designed for’
Strategist Ken Coulson applies systems thinking to sustainability challenges
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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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Saving the forest for the trees: Clark dataset helps landowners pay the bills while curbing climate impacts
On 63 acres inherited from her father in Pennsylvania, Monica Shields raises goats and sheep and supports community-based education. In central Alabama, David Horsley vows to keep the 800 acres gifted by his parents so his family can continue hunting, fishing, and enjoying it for generations. Besides a love of nature, these two landowners have…
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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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Clark makes its presence known at Climate Week
Clark faculty, administrators, and alumni are in New York to contribute to the important global conversations taking place at Climate Week NYC, billed as the world’s second-largest climate gathering.
