As the Trump administration abruptly puts an end to a myriad of labs, climate change reports and initiatives, jobs, and funding, a gaping hole is left in their place. In an effort to at least temporarily make up for that need, numerous non-profit organizations and academic groups have formed a “greenhouse gas coalition” for the continued monitoring and research of …
Why is climate change talked about so much but yet so little? When will people start to take this issue seriously? What is being done to reduce the effect of climate change? What small things can we do every day to prevent the increase of climate change? These are the questions New Jersey youth were asking at the Climate Teen Summit …
RCEI affiliate Kay Bidle, professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS), has been selected for the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society’s ARIS inaugural 2025 Research Fellowship. Created to support notable researchers who are equally invested in their research and its impacts, the ARIS Research Fellowship focuses on how researchers can increase their capacity to frame their research as …
In early June, RCEI affiliate Dario Pompili, a professor in the School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, and two of his team members, doctoral candidates Zhile Li and Songjun Huang, went to Bonn, Germany to compete as one of 12 finalist teams in the 2025 T Challenge. Sponsored by Deutsche …
The effects of climate change recently displayed themselves very clearly in New York, as a heatwave struck the Northeast with record breaking temperatures that were only observed to that level many decades ago. Central Park, 99 degrees, reported its highest June 24th temperature in recorded history, and as the scorching heat grew and maintained due to the “heat dome” phenomenon, …
In its ongoing campaign against climate change research, the Trump administration is proposing budget cuts of about 1.8 billion dollars per year from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), taking away 2,000 full time jobs and closing down the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton. This laboratory, engaged in its mission since 1955, is a key center of …
The board named RCEI affiliate Kenneth G. Miller, acclaimed for his pioneering research on sea level and climate change, a Board of Governors Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Internationally recognized for his expertise in past sea levels, especially his research on carbon cycle and sea level, Miller has garnered more than 24,000 citations on his work on ancient sea …
Congratulations to RCEI affiliate and Distinguished Professor Alan Robock on the publication of his new book, “Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter.” With this book, Robock expertly crafts a discussion about the death of the dinosaurs millions of years ago and how it is still relevant …
The New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center (NJCCRC) at Rutgers University has released the Proceedings of its March 2025 conference Sustaining Innovation in New Jersey Climate Change Policy: Past, Present, and Future which brought together 200 New Jersey leaders to engage in a dialogue about the state’s climate change goals and policies, challenges to reaching those goals, relevant lessons that …
Congratulations to RCEI affiliate Pamela McElwee for her contributions in editing the “The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services”. This book discusses the impact and role of these Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), “the nonmaterial aspects of benefits that people derive from nature”, in the relationship between humans and the environment across the world, in a multitude of contexts and biomes. …
