NY Times Op-ed highlights barriers to farming for today’s young Americans Sabin Fellow Brooks Lamb, author and Special Advisor to the American Farmland Trust, published a powerful New York Times op-ed highlighting the barriers to farming facing young Americans and underscoring the significant risks […]
Investigation Links Last Summer’s Mercury Seizure to the Cartel at the heart of recent military operations in Mexico If you’ve been following the news out of Mexico in recent weeks, you may have heard about the Mexican army’s killing of “El Mencho,” Nemesio Rubén Oseguera […]
Sabin Fellow Farfan-Rios Shares Implications from Decades of Research In a recent explainer from our colleagues at Wake Forest News, Sabin Center Fellow William Farfan-Rios talks us through how Andes Amazon forests struggle to adapt to the challenges of climate change. With four decades of […]
Sabin Center Fellow’s TED Talk featured in “10 Ideas Changing the World in 2026” We’re honored to share that Wake Forest University’s Claudia Vega, a Sabin Center Fellow, has had her TED Talk named as one of TED’s “10 Ideas Changing the World in 2026.” […]
Twin Articles from Inside Climate News Tap Fernandez’s Expertise as Infrastructure Investments Accelerate Development in Peru Sabin Center Senior Fellow Luis Fernandez, Executive Director of CINCIA, has been cited in reporting on the destructive cycle fueled by illegal gold mining and the infrastructure that supports […]
Interim Executive Director Scott Schang weighed in on North Carolina’s Senate Race through an environmental lens with the Winston Salem Journal this week. The article, US Senate candidates Cooper vs. Whatley: How do they stack up on environmental issues?, written by Chaewon Chung, was published by the WSJ on August […]
Incident Underscores Links Between Mercury Pollution, Illegal Gold Mining & Organized Crime Last month, Sabin Center Senior Fellow Luis Fernandez assisted Peruvian customs officials authorities in the seizure of a record-breaking 4-ton shipment of illegal mercury on its way to Peru. Hidden in bags of […]
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 […]
With virtually each passing day of the new administration, our nation has seen major shifts in federal governance, and environmental regulation is certainly facing rapid change. Executive Director Stan Meiburg, who capped his 39-year career with the EPA as Acting Deputy Administrator under President Obama, […]
What is a “Flash Drought” and how does it explain the current Carolina Wildfires? Board Member Lauren Lowman, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Nick Corak, a Ph.D. Candidate in Physics at Wake Forest University, shared a helpful explainer in The Conversation on the […]