On September 7, the Department of Commerce and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced $24.3 million for research projects on marine carbon dioxide removal strategies that will find solutions to the present climate crisis. The funding comprises $14 million granted by the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act and is the largest climate investment in history. NOAA and its partners …

Analysis by Rutgers scientists shows future techniques limiting global climate change may create uneven benefits, forcing difficult decisions worldwide. A technology being studied to curb climate change – one that could be put in place in one or two decades if work on the technology began now – would affect food productivity in parts of planet Earth in dramatically different …

School of Arts and Sciences scholars to spend academic year at center founded by Einstein and others. Four faculty members in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, including RCEI Affiliate Alastair Bellany, have been awarded memberships for the 2023-24 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry into the sciences and the …

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Rutgers University, including RCEI Affiliates Ken Miller and Robert Kopp, have published a new study in Science Advances finding that parts of the New York City metropolitan area are sinking and rising at different rates due to various man-made and natural factors which can mitigate or enhance local flood risk associated with sea …

The National Science Foundation’s CIVIC program helps community-university partnerships combat climate change and improve access to essential resources and services. A team of researchers at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, led by RCEI Affiliates Clint Andrews, Jennifer Senick, and Jie Gong, has been selected to receive a $1 million Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) award for a community-university partnership that combats climate change and improves …

The Department of Environmental Protection announced the launch of an online mapping tool that will help the public, stakeholders and government officials advance work that is needed to bolster the resilience of New Jersey’s coastal areas to climate change. The Coastal Ecological Restoration and Adaptation Planning Tool (CERAP Tool), provides the locations of at-risk areas, coastal resource restoration sites, and …

A recent article published by the Hill reveals that heat waves have increasingly disrupted the academic calendar in many schools. Rising temperatures, intensified by climate change. have caused hundreds of schools to close early in August. Experts warn that higher temperatures may lead to reduced test scores and learning impacts. RCEI Affiliate, David Robinson explained that northern regions may even experience more snow days …

National Estuaries Week, which will be observed this year from Sept. 16-23, is an annual celebration of the environmental significance of estuaries. Established in 1988 as National Estuaries Day, it was expanded to a weeklong observation to increase public awareness of the critical ecological and societal importance of estuaries. The new publication, Climate Change and Estuaries, showcases the value of estuaries …

Professors and RCEI Affiliates Pamela McElwee and Rachael Shwom of the Department of Human Ecology have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to plan a Center on Sustainability and Governance in the Anthropocene. The award was made from the new NSF program on Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES), which funds interdisciplinary research to create …

RCEI Affiliate Fuat E. Celik, of Rutgers Department of Chemical Engineering, and colleagues are the authors and inventors of a recently granted patent “Near Infrared Photocatalyst Based on TiO2-Coated Gold Nanoparticles.” When coated with TiO2, star-shaped gold nanoparticles are able to produce hydrogen from water four times more efficiently than other methods. The research study – and resultant patent – …