By Justin Catanoso In the wake of the dire, just released UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, a climate advocacy group known as CLARA (Climate, Land, Ambition and Rights Alliance) has published a separate report proposing that the world’s nations put far more effort […]
Every year the world comes together to discuss progress on combating climate change. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change hosts the COP–the Conference of Parties–where the world’s 192 countries negotiate how to address climate change. This year’s COP is in Lima, Peru, where the […]
CEES faculty members Miles Silman and Abdou Lachgar, and CEES fellow and MA in Sustainability graduate student Andrew Wilcox and are on a mission to change tropical agriculture in the Amazon. By creating biochar, a type of fertilizer and soil conditioner made from charred agricultural […]
By Andrew Wilcox, CEES Fellow Charcoal isn’t just for grilling anymore. Biochar, a specific kind of charcoal produced efficiently from sustainably sourced feedstocks, such as agricultural residues, bamboo, and timber waste, holds great promise in boosting agricultural yields, cleaning up contaminated soils, and sequestering […]
Researchers at Wake Forest have pieced together startling new evidence that shows rapid 21st century warming may spell doom for tree species in Peruvian cloud forests, with species losing up to 96 percent of their current populations. The team’s results appear in the Sept. […]
CEES Director and Professor of Biology Miles Silman recently spoke to WUNC about how global temperature increases are affecting tropical forests. Silman and his research group have been measuring forest response to climate shifts for the past 10 years as part of the Andes […]
CEES Director Miles Silman was featured in WXII‘s piece on climate changes in South America. Reporter Cameron Kent’s story “The Lungs of the World” takes a closer look at the Andes Mountain region, cloud forests and the Amazon. Up to a third of the […]
