Climate

  • Addressing the globe’s polycrisis

    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.

  • Connecting sunlight and forests to curbing climate change 

    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.

  • Clark makes its presence known at Climate Week

    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.

  • ‘I wanted to be in the communities’

    ‘I wanted to be in the communities’

    From global to grassroots, Solange Biandaky-Badji, Ph.D. ’08, is a leader

  • ‘We need to generate the energy that leads to more optimism, hope, and action’

    ‘We need to generate the energy that leads to more optimism, hope, and action’

    With two shovelfuls of dirt applied to the base of a red maple that now grows beside the Shaich Family Alumni and Student Engagement Center, Clark University on Monday signaled its enduring commitment to confront the most pernicious threats to the health of the planet.