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Sarah Czerwonka and Tim Cook have been recognized for going above and beyond, with Sarah receiving the 2025 CNS Outstanding Staff Award and Tim receiving the 2025 CNS Exceptional Internal Service Awards

Dr. Isaac Larsen receives funding from CAFE to study soil carbon sinks in agricultural landscapes.

PhD student Wenxiu Teng leads an EGCS team of researchers that recently debuted a new, highly accurate method for quantifying carbon capture in the Northeast’s salt marshes — and it’s a lot.

This study addresses an often-overlooked aspect of privacy research by focusing on geoprivacy - particularly in China, where Internet use exceeds 70% of the population and social media is pervasive. Through an online survey and statistical analysis, Zhang and McKenzie explore how knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors around privacy align in Chinese society. Their findings reveal that while increased privacy knowledge is linked to heightened privacy-protective attitudes and behaviors, declarative knowledge (like an understanding of privacy rights) surprisingly correlates with reduced privacy

Yale Environment 360 Highlights the work of State Geologist Brian Yellen and others in analyzing the impact that dam removal has on small waterways in New England.

In the article, Douglas interviews [Dr.] Michael Rawlins—extension associate professor in the Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences and the associate director of the Climate System Research Center at UMass Amherst—to learn how intensifying wildfires in California, Massachusetts, and other geographies are predictable externalities of a warming world...

Dr. Michele Cooke is part of a team of scientists investigating ways to make earthquake warning systems work for more people.

As the planet passes a perilous threshold for warming, here's how scientists say we're still far from "game over"