Environment and sustainability
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From crab blood to carbon hoarding
Caden Thomas ’27 gets down in the mud for marine research For many Clark students, summer internships open doors to unexpected opportunities. For Caden Thomas ’27, that door was an internship in the mudflats of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Thomas, an environmental science and policy major with a minor in geography in the School of Climate, Environment,…
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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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‘We must tell the story of the Earth’
Through a series of maps that he presented during his talk at Clark, Esri Story Maps founder Allen Carroll told his personal and professional story.
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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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‘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.
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Photo Essay: School of Climate, Environment, and Society kickoff day
Clark celebrated the launch of the School of Climate, Environment, and Society with an all-day kickoff event that included opportunities to learn about new academic offerings, explore local nature, and engage in fun activities and workshops.
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Polar research blooms inside the hot spots
Ella Christie ’27 joined Geography Professor Karen Frey’s Polar Science Research Laboratory team in the Northern Bering Strait and the Southern Chukchi Sea to conduct studies of the water, part of a multidisciplinary Arctic ocean-sampling program.
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‘We stepped out of our comfort zone’
HERO students find common ground in researching outcomes of urban tree-planting program
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‘We have the tools in our hands to create a more sustainable civilization’
We may think we face a bleak future under climate change, but there is still time to take effective action if we reconsider our economic and social approaches and develop alternative solutions, according to a panel of scholars.
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Clark-built dashboard reveals success of conservation efforts where the wild things are
Each spring for 13 years, a cohort in Clark University’s Wildlife Conservation GIS Research Seminar has tackled a vexing biodiversity project for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a global nonprofit organization.