EES News
(Sept. 25, 2025)
How Forests Sparked Deep-Sea LifeAbout 390 million years ago, Earth’s deep oceans filled with oxygen, turning them into homes for diverse marine life. The first forests on land drove this transformation, releasing both oxygen and nutrients to the sea.
(Sept. 23, 2025)
Secrets Beneath Greenland’s IceWhat lies beneath the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet may hold the key to understanding one of the most pressing climate challenges of our time: sea-level rise.
(Aug. 28, 2025)
Summer Research: Major ImpactStep into the labs where students spent their summer developing research-driven responses to global challenges, blending curiosity with impact.
(Aug. 22, 2025)
Safer Lakes, Cleaner WaterA new lakebed mapping initiative on Skaneateles Lake is helping scientists pinpoint nutrient-rich sediments that fuel harmful algal blooms (HABs), a growing threat to Syracuse’s major drinking water source.
(July 14, 2025)
EES Professor Quoted in New York TimesProfessor Christopher Junium offered insight regarding a 70 million year old fossil found under the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
(July 3, 2025)
Forests Can’t Keep Up: Adaptation Will Lag Behind Climate ChangeForests are falling behind in the race against climate change, with new research revealing it takes centuries for tree populations to adapt—far too slow to keep pace with today’s rapidly warming world.
(May 28, 2025)
What Can Ancient Climate Tell Us About Modern Droughts?Researchers from Syracuse University and the United Kingdom found chemical clues in ancient South African sediments linking past atmospheric shifts to droughts that mirror Cape Town’s Day Zero crisis.
(May 23, 2025)
Rock Record Illuminates Oxygen HistoryA team of researchers from Syracuse University and MIT uncovered evidence that oxygenation in the ocean—crucial for life as we know it—may have occurred earlier than previously thought, offering new insights into the evolution of our planet.