UMass Amherst has established a new School of Earth and Sustainability, which will serve as a central hub for a suite of academic programs, research, innovation, outreach and extension activities focused on finding solutions to the complex, global environmental challenges of the 21st century.
In time for Earth Day, scientists at the Climate System Research Center (CSRC) at UMass Amherst this week released a set of state-specific reports describing likely effects of carbon emissions targets, agreed upon in December at “COP21” in Paris, on the future climate of 22 states including all those in the Northeast.
Massachusetts Senate President Stan Rosenberg spoke about energy needs and introduced a panel of industry experts for a UMass Amherst forum on the state and future of offshore wind energy.
As 2016 chair of the Microbial Ecology section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Kristen DeAngelis, microbiology, recently received a $1,500 long-range planning grant to promote awareness of the role of microbes in composting organic materials. The award will fund one undergraduate from...
UMass Amherst students are using crowdfunding for support in hosting the Student Sustainability Leadership Symposium (SSLS) in the fall.
The SSLS, formerly known as the Eco-Rep symposium, is an annual conference that brings together 200 sustainability-minded students from across the Northeast for...
UMass Amherst Dining was recently honored with a Global Restaurant Award for its commitment to sustainability.
The awards, which were presented during the Global Restaurant Investment Forum (GRIF), offer an opportunity for industry leaders worldwide to recognize those businesses that have shown...
A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea-level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor of two. Details appear in the current issue of Nature.
Selected to give the 2016 Daffodil Lecture on Sustainability and the Environment, Amherst College associate professor Lisa Brooks will present “Imagining an Indigenous Future: Adaptation, Decolonization and Sustainability in the Wake of Climate Change” on Monday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.
