COP25: Self-serving G20 spites youth, humanity, world at climate talks
CEES Board Member and Mongabay environmental reporter, Justin Catanoso, provides a breakdown of the 25th annual United Nations climate summit (COP25) in Madrid.
COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests
Never have the stakes been higher, nor perhaps planetary politics or nature more unsettled, as participants gather for the annual United Nations Climate Summit. Indicative of a global sense of urgency, the European parliament just last week declared a “climate and environmental emergency,” urging EU countries to commit to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
CEES Director Researches Ways to Reforest the Amazon
Bob Buckley, reporter for My Fox News Channel 8, talked with CEES Director, Dr. Miles Silman, about the research he has conducted with Wake Forest University’s Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) to reduce illegal gold mining […]
Carbon to Burn: UK Net-Zero Emissions Pledge Undermined by Biomass Energy
By: Justin Catanoso, CEES affiliate and professor of journalism Last week, the United Kingdom announced plans to pass a national law setting a country-wide target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, to be achieved by 2050. The pronouncement came in response to a directive […]
Where to Go From Here? Former Administrators Discuss the Future of the EPA
On June 11, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing in Washington on the current direction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The hearing featured four former EPA Administrators: Lee Thomas, who served under President Reagan; […]
Novel Camera Trapping and Drone Technologies Put CEES Pilot Mountain Project on the Map
Since 2015, CEES researchers Max Messinger (’13), director of Wake Forest’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Lab, and Robbie Baldwin (’17), Biology graduate student, led by principal investigator and CEES Leopold Research Fellow, Jared Beaver (’08), have worked with local officials at Pilot Mountain to manage the […]
CEES Affiliate, Fred Bahnson, Awarded Writing Grant for Book on Contemplative Ecology
Acclaimed author and ecological activist uses the power of stories to reshape responses to the challenges of climate change Originally posted by WFU Divinity | Media Contact: C. Mark Batten | battencm@wfu.edu | 336.758.3959 Fred Bahnson, director of the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program, […]
Meiburg Appointed Chair of state’s Environmental Management Commission
By Wake Forest University Communications and External Relations Team Stan Meiburg, director of Wake Forest’s graduate programs in sustainability, has assumed chairmanship of North Carolina’s Environmental Management Commission (EMC). The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality announced Meiburg’s appointment this week. Meiburg’s term will continue […]
Five Golden Rings … and an Environmental Dilemma
December 18, 2018 by Kim McGrath | mcgratka@wfu.edu & Alicia Roberts | media@wfu.edu Gold jewelry on your holiday shopping list? Before you buy that special someone a statement piece this season, scientists studying climate change and the fate of the world’s vital rainforests ask you to consider […]
As the Climate Changes, So Will the Galápagos
This morning, a front-page story in the digital New York Times was swimming with interactive imagery of marine species in the Galápagos Islands and expertise from Wake Forest biologist and CEES affiliate, Dr. Dave J. Anderson. Since the 1980’s, Dr. Anderson has studied the […]