School of Climate, Environment, and Society
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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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Students set sail for the Arctic on a VR excursion
Middle school students from Central Massachusetts embarked on a research trip to the Arctic, all while never leaving the Clark campus.
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Of humans, crocodiles, and mangroves: Faculty launch Environmental Humanities program
A celebration of Clark’s new Environmental Humanities program featured faculty presentations on their current research, which spans the fields of language, literature, culture, history, sociology, and politics.
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Why climate ignorance proved deadly in 17th-century New England
What is the price that humans might pay for today’s spread of climate misinformation amid the emergence of AI? Professor Nathan Braccio describes how the lack of climate knowledge and experience contributed to English “colonial failures” of the 1600s.
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GIS Week mapathon expands rooftop solar dataset
During the Fall 2025 GIS and Practicing Geography Week, a group of Clark students gathered for a mapathon focused on rooftop solar detection.
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Afield in the forest, students learn how to ‘see the world as it is’
Geography course offers career-ready insights and strategies for environmental research
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‘We have to continue to bend the curve’
Clark faculty who attended COP30 shared their impressions of progress and challenges that were illuminated during the U.N.’s two-week climate conference.
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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.