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Research Predicts Massive Increase in Drought-Induced Migration

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.

April 26, 2022

4 min read

Community Events School of Social Welfare

Community Learning Day 2022 Encourages Climate Change Advocacy

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...

April 19, 2022

6 min read

Long Island News Highlights On Campus Sustainability

New Specialists Support New York Sea Grant’s Climate Resiliency and Coastal Literacy Efforts

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...

April 19, 2022

3 min read

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Study Shows Human-Induced Climate Change Is Affecting Hurricane Severity

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...

April 12, 2022

4 min read

Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research SoMAS University

Improving the Global Response to Climate Change

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...

February 1, 2022

2 min read

Alda Center (Private)School of Communication and Journalism

Stony Brook Students, Researchers Contribute to WSHU’s Higher Ground Podcast

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...

October 15, 2021

4 min read

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SBU Leads Climate Week Discussion on Creating Green Partnerships

Stony Brook University hosted a panel of city and state officials to discuss how partnerships between government, universities, and industries can not only help New York State meet its climate goals, but also improve...

September 29, 2021

2 min read

A new study shows long-finned pilot whales in the Northeast U.S. shifted poleward during a 25-year period, as water temperatures warmed rapidly.

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Study Shows Climate Change Could Be Altering the Marine Food Web

According to SoMAS' Lesley Thorne, if climate change decouples relationships between marine mammals and their prey, this could have important implications for marine food web dynamics.

September 28, 2021

3 min read

Alda Center Alda Center (Private)News Highlights Sustainability

Alda Center Launches Climate Conversations Workshop

The three-hour program, Climate Conversations Online, is designed for scientists, researchers and others whose work focuses on climate change and its impact on our world.

September 20, 2021

2 min read

Jessica Gurevitch, co-leader of the Climate Interventional Biology working group. Credit: Julia Postol

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Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Ecologist Jessica Gurevitch leads a team that is examining the consequences of using stratospheric aerosol intervention to help cool the Earth as fossil fuel emissions are reduced.

April 6, 2021

5 min read

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Climate Research May Help Reduce “Snail Fever” Worldwide

Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change scenarios may be a key component in a large research initiative with the goal to reduce schistosomiasis.

October 8, 2020

3 min read

Faculty/Staff News Highlights Sustainability

Christopher Sellers Acts to Safeguard Environmental Data

He joined together with a dozen volunteers to help form a new non-profit, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, to scrutinize the EPA following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

February 14, 2020

4 min read

Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Faculty/Staff Leadership Sustainability

Sotiropoulos Op-Ed: Invest in Climate Change

A planned engineering facility at Stony Brook University will fuel the pipeline for the requisite human talent and innovation to combat climate change.

February 10, 2020

1 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights Global Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

CBS News Covers SBU Scientists Studying Climate Change in Antarctica

The work of Stony Brook researchers in Antarctica has been highlighted by a CBS News article, Global warming cited as Antarctica’s chinstrap penguin population drops by half, which details live coverage by a CBS News...

January 17, 2020

1 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Staff News Highlights Research SoMAS Stony Brook Matters

Study Uses New Forecasting Tools to Show How Climate Change Affected Hurricane Florence

Change in extreme weather is one of the most serious ways that we experience the impact of climate change. A study led by Kevin Reed, Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook...

January 2, 2020

3 min read

Academics Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights SoMAS Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Donovan Finn Receives Early Career Faculty Innovator Award

Donovan Finn, an assistant professor of Environmental Design, Policy and Planning in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, is one of nine early...

June 5, 2019

3 min read

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NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

How does landscape history affect the diversity of mammals over time? Why are there more species in the Andes than there are in the Amazon? Over the next three years, a team of geophysicists, geochemists and biologists...

April 23, 2019

3 min read

Events On Campus Sustainability

Climatologist Michael Mann Targets Climate Change Denial in Upcoming Lecture

In celebration of Earthstock, prominent climate scientist and geophysicist Michael Mann offers a somewhat lighthearted take on a very serious issue — the threat of human-caused climate change and what to do about it...

February 27, 2019

3 min read

Tag: climate change

Research Predicts Massive Increase in Drought-Induced Migration

New Specialists Support New York Sea Grant’s Climate Resiliency and Coastal Literacy Efforts

Study Shows Human-Induced Climate Change Is Affecting Hurricane Severity

Improving the Global Response to Climate Change

Stony Brook Students, Researchers Contribute to WSHU’s Higher Ground Podcast

SBU Leads Climate Week Discussion on Creating Green Partnerships

Study Shows Climate Change Could Be Altering the Marine Food Web

Alda Center Launches Climate Conversations Workshop

Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Climate Research May Help Reduce “Snail Fever” Worldwide

Christopher Sellers Acts to Safeguard Environmental Data

Sotiropoulos Op-Ed: Invest in Climate Change

CBS News Covers SBU Scientists Studying Climate Change in Antarctica

Study Uses New Forecasting Tools to Show How Climate Change Affected Hurricane Florence

Donovan Finn Receives Early Career Faculty Innovator Award

NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

Climatologist Michael Mann Targets Climate Change Denial in Upcoming Lecture

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