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Climate Change and the Environment

Drawing on our expertise in environmental sciences and through our transnational partnerships, A&S faculty and students are driving new solutions to extreme weather events, food insecurity and public health crises. We also work to translate the science into actionable knowledge and practical policies to support resiliency and adaptation locally and around the globe.

Related News Stories

(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.

PNAS Cover showing a obsidian funerary urn (1375–1427 CE) from Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan.

(May 23, 2025)

Rock Record Illuminates Oxygen History

A 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.

(May 13, 2025)

Forecasting the Future with Fossils

Ph.D. graduate’s paleontology research may shed light on ecological and animal responses to past, future climate change.

A closeup image of a sculpin.

(April 9, 2025)

Microscopic Modification, Enhanced Attachment?

Researchers from Syracuse University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette discovered tiny features on sculpins’ fins which may enable them to cling firmly in harsh underwater environments.

portrait of a person

(March 3, 2025)

What Created Czech Republic’s Distinctive Geology?

Fulbright award enables A&S professor to travel to the Czech Republic to investigate the European Cenozoic rift system.

Mills River in Pisgah National Forest North Carolina.

(Feb. 28, 2025)

America’s Rivers May Hold a Key to Carbon Capture

Researchers at Syracuse University are integrating traditional geochemistry with artificial intelligence to forecast the impact of climate warming and population growth on the alkalinity and salt levels in rivers nationwide.

Maggie Sardino standing in front of the historic Somerset House in London.

(Feb. 17, 2025)

Alumni Postcards: Spreading Sustainability in London

A&S | Maxwell alumna Maggie Sardino ’23 is currently in England helping to teach environmental storytelling to undergraduate students at Syracuse Abroad – London, while pursuing two master’s degrees as a Marshall Scholar.

Wall mural of a turtle swimming.

(Nov. 7, 2024)

What Does Seventh-Generation Thinking Mean? (A&S Fall Magazine Exclusive)

Indigenous values offer alternative roads to sustainability.

Three people talking beside a stream.

(Sept. 11, 2024)

Spring Disappearance and Backyard Flooding? A&S Researchers Explore if Climate Change and/or Human Intervention are to Blame

A faculty and student team from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is installing urban stream monitoring stations to investigate how extreme precipitation and other factors are affecting a Syracuse waterway.

Group of people standing in front of a lake.

(July 26, 2024)

Green Teaching Summit: A Humanities Approach to Climate Education

Faculty connect, learn about campus climate and ecology resources at the Green Teaching Summit convened by Tolley Professor Mike Goode at Syracuse University’s Minnowbrook Conference Center.

AI-generated image of what the ocean may have looked like during the Paleozoic era, around 500 million years ago.

(June 27, 2024)

Scientists Untangle Interactions Between the Earth’s Early Life Forms and the Environment over 500 million Years

Syracuse University Thonis Family Professor Zunli Lu leads an interdisciplinary group exploring how biology and the physical environment co-evolved.

Flooded street with a stop sign and building in the background.

(June 17, 2024)

What’s Driving Increased Rainfall in the Eastern U.S.?

Thonis Family Professor Tripti Bhattacharya and postdoctoral researcher David Fastovich have received a three-year, $547,000 NSF grant to explore how ancient climate data can inform future forecasting.

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