A new study reveals that warmer oceans thousands of years ago slowed the growth of an important clam species in the Adriatic Sea—giving us a glimpse into how marine life might react to future climate change. Fiorella Prada, RCEI Affiliate, is a co-author on the study, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports. Read the full study here. The …
As the planet warms, salt is sneaking into the places we least expect it—our rivers. A new study warns that salt contamination of drinking water in tidal rivers is becoming a serious and global problem. Robert Chant, RCEI Affiliate, is a co-author on the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters. Read the full study …
Clues as to how an environment changes over time can take many different forms; for a recent multi-university research team composed of professors and students from Rutgers, Arizona State University, and Purdue those forms manifested themselves as tiny seeds and sub-fossil insects as the group took on an investigation of man-made Lake Myosotis in New York’s Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve. …
A study by a Rutgers professor and a national team shows rising temperatures could reduce crop production Climate change is putting the global food system at risk, even as farmers try to adapt, according to a study conducted by a Rutgers-New Brunswick professor and other researchers in a national collaboration. Publishing their findings in Nature, the researchers found that every 1-degree Celsius …
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. …
In the midst of alarming international conflict and war, the issue of nuclear weapons is becoming more and more of a priority for many. Though their abolition was not as strongly pursued in the past, recently fear has been rising at the thought of their dire impact. Numerous studies have also repeatedly reported the ugly truth, such as one conducted …
A network of undergraduate professors is creating a new edition of an open-source online laboratory manual, full of free educational data activities for anyone to use in undergraduate or graduate oceanography classes. Developed by the Ocean Data Labs project, each chapter of the online lab manual focuses on different oceanographic concepts typically taught in an Introduction to Oceanography textbook. The activities are …
