Long Island Has Become a Hub for Novel Solutions to Mitigate Water-quality Impairment and Climate Change Christopher Gobler, endowed chair of coastal ecology and conservation in the School of Marine and Atmospheric...
Study Reveals Summer Heatwaves and Low Dissolved Oxygen Contributed to Fishery Collapse A new study by Stony Brook University researchers published in Global Change Biology demonstrates that warming waters and heat...
This fall, a team of Stony Brook journalism students came together to tell the story of the Great South Bay, a 45-mile stretch of water between Long Island and Fire Island, an Atlantic barrier island. The story, “Can...
The storm now known as Hurricane Sandy developed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, 2012, and quickly intensified. After wreaking havoc on Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Hispaniola and Bermuda, it moved north in...
Marine Scientists’ Letter in Science Journal Urges Preservation of One of the Last Coral Refuges An international group of marine scientists led by Karine Kleinhaus from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and...
Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) for pledging ongoing action to...
Three members of the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) faculty and staff are featured in WNBC-TV New York’s digital four-part series on climate change, “Chasing Our...
A new study shows we need to implement policies that promote collaboration across global value chains with regard to scaling up low-carbon energy technologies.
The energy consumption of 21st century societies is causing the Earth’s climate to warm at an alarming rate, but our way of life is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Knowing how we came to this moment in time...
Findings Are Based on Nearly 19 Million Publicly Available Tweets A study led by Stony Brook University political scientists and published in PNAS analyzed nearly 19 million publicly available tweets from 2019 to 2021...
J.D. Allen Was Awarded for His Climate Change Podcast Higher Ground Stony Brook University School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) lecturer and WSHU managing editor J.D. Allen received an Eric and Wendy Schmidt...
CDS 101: Energy, Climate, and Society will be taught by three faculty experts from different academic disciplines to address various aspects of the climate crisis.
A recent study led by SBU researchers suggests that human migration due to droughts will increase by at least 200 percent as we move through the 21st century.
Community Learning Day (CLD) was created to bring School of Social Welfare students, faculty and staff together to explore a significant and timely social justice issue of the day. It not only offers an introduction to...
Five new extension specialists have joined New York Sea Grant (NYSG) in its mission of “Bringing Science to the Shore” as part of a collaborative program between Cornell University and the State University of New York...
A study that analyzed the entire 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season — in conjunction with human activity that affects climate change — found that hourly hurricane rainfall totals were up to 10 percent higher compared...
A new commentary in the inaugural issue of PLOS Climate by two researchers, including Stony Brook University Professor Kevin A. Reed, calls for developed nations to direct resources toward operationalizing extreme...
The impact of climate change on Long Island is visible almost anywhere you look. A new WSHU podcast, Higher Ground, produced with help from faculty and students at Stony Brook’s School of Communication and Journalism...