Environment and sustainability
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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.
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Harvesting lessons from a farming master class
Reflections from a semester spent studying food production across Central Massachusetts
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Course examines humans’ tangled relationship with fungi and plants
In Plants, People, and Fungi, a new, advanced course focused on humans’ age-old relationships with flora and funga, Clark students encounter stories like those of The Iceman we now call Ötzi, and Fungus Man and the trickster Raven.
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How much might countries benefit from cleaning up plastic pollution in the ocean?
Study of North Atlantic nations indicates that international cooperation could curb overall costs
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Will Long Island Sound residents make changes to help protect it?
With over $1.5M in funding, Clark researcher studies how to encourage less fertilizer use, more septic upgrades
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The art of addressing sea level rise
How creativity plays a role in finding solutions to sea change
