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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Justin Catanoso, CEES Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Journalism at Wake Forest University. Representatives from nearly 200 nations gathered in Katowice, Poland on Sunday for COP24, the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties, to move forward on climate action. The goal: keep […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wake Forest’s Centro de Innovación Cientifica Amazónica (CINCIA) has published research briefs showing how illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios has contributed to increased deforestation and contaminated waterways.
Cassie Freund is a tropical forest ecologist and a third-year Ph.D. student at Wake Forest. She currently studies the disturbance ecology of tropical montane forests. Her work is important for understanding the structure, composition, and functioning of these dynamic forest ecosystems. By: Kat Boulton Q: […]