Testing reveals chronic mercury exposure across Peru’s Loreto region Climbing gold prices may mean climbing mercury poisoning rates for the people living in the Peruvian Amazon. According to a June report from our colleagues at CINCIA, widespread mercury exposure has been identified in several […]
The Real World Consequences of Cuts to USAID Programs Earlier this year, the Trump Administration terminated over 6,000 grants as it rapidly dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), before any meaningful review of the programs could take place. When critical scientific funding […]
Sabin Center welcomes a delegation of young Amazonian leaders to kick off the second year of our “Connecting Cultures” program
Our inaugural Sabin Center conference will bring together leaders in environmental stewardship from government, academia, NGOs, and the private sector to share emerging solutions to the urgent environmental crises facing our world. Our keynote will be delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, one of the […]
Young leaders from six Indigenous nations in the Peruvian Amazon will head back home with a new vision and resources to tackle pressing environmental and social issues in their communities. During their visit to Wake Forest University this month, the Indigenous leader delegation spent several […]
Gold and mineral mining in and near rivers across the tropics is degrading waterways in 49 countries, according to a new study by a team of researchers including Wake Forest University biologists and computer scientists in its Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES). Published […]
To effectively combat climate change, humanity needs to both stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and to lock away at least some that we’ve already unleashed, a process called carbon sequestration. Reforestation — replanting trees at large scale — is often touted as a […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Wake Forest University Communications & External Relations Katie Neal (’03) and Alicia Roberts (WINSTON-SALEM, NC, November 8, 2018) – Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years, according to a new analysis by […]