South America
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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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‘We hear them, see them, and are with them’
At COP30, Clark supports Indigenous peoples’ fight to be heard
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XPRIZE award honors work of Clark geographer, research team in the Amazon
International collaborators answered call of global rainforest competition
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Steinbrecher Fellow spends summer with ‘keepers of the pastures’
Rowan Compton ’25, M.S. ’26, studies land change in the Brazilian cerrado biome
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72 hours in the Amazon
Geography professor vies for $10M research prize with Brazilian rainforest study
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Clark geographer applies ecoacoustic research to assessment of the Amazon
Florencia Sangermano brings expertise to team collecting biodiversity data in three-day competition
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Bogotá Dreams
With Clark University’s help, some of the poorest Colombians are transforming their backyards into fields of possibility When the nuns of Bogotá needed assistance to lift the city’s poorest citizens out of poverty, John Dobson accepted the challenge. Because it was good work. And because you don’t say no to the nuns. The associate professor…
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‘Language is a verb’
Why identity matters in language learning
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Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest: a bellwether for human health
Protecting Indigenous lands can save $2 billion in healthcare costs, Clark geographer's study shows