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.
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Forecasting the Future with FossilsPh.D. graduate’s paleontology research may shed light on ecological and animal responses to past, future climate change.
(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.
(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.
(Feb. 28, 2025)
America’s Rivers May Hold a Key to Carbon CaptureResearchers 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.
(Feb. 17, 2025)
Alumni Postcards: Spreading Sustainability in LondonA&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.
(Nov. 7, 2024)
What Does Seventh-Generation Thinking Mean? (A&S Fall Magazine Exclusive)Indigenous values offer alternative roads to sustainability.
(Sept. 11, 2024)
Spring Disappearance and Backyard Flooding? A&S Researchers Explore if Climate Change and/or Human Intervention are to BlameA 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.
(July 26, 2024)
Green Teaching Summit: A Humanities Approach to Climate EducationFaculty 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.
(June 27, 2024)
Scientists Untangle Interactions Between the Earth’s Early Life Forms and the Environment over 500 million YearsSyracuse University Thonis Family Professor Zunli Lu leads an interdisciplinary group exploring how biology and the physical environment co-evolved.
(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.
(April 30, 2024)
A&S Biologist Calls for Protection and More Studies of Natural Time Capsules of Climate ChangeAncient rodent nests—or middens—offer critical ecological and evolutionary archives of the last 50,000 years. Katie Becklin helps lead an effort for midden preservation and study.
(March 22, 2024)
Other Ways of Seeing: Understanding Ecology and Climate Through ArtA team of Syracuse University faculty, students and staff create learning materials for educators and students, using the SU Art Museum’s vast collection of objects and artworks.