Wake Forest and CEES-affiliated biologists Miles Silman and Luis Fernandez were recently featured on NBC Nightly News and NBC’s Today Show to highlight work by the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) addressing the environmental issues around gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. The coverage, […]
Indigenous peoples globally are disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution. The Matsigenka people of the Peruvian Amazon are one such Indigenous group. Fewer than 1000 Matsigenka are spread across four villages in the Manu River Basin of Manu National Park southeastern Peru, with an uncertain […]
This month the Wake Forest undergraduate Environment and Sustainability Studies Program reached an important milestone in welcoming new Program Director Dr. Julie Velásquez Runk. She comes to Wake Forest from the University of Georgia, where she was an Associate Professor of Anthropology. Velásquez Runk takes […]
In a landmark 161-0 vote on July 28, 2022, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly recognized the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. The United States voted in favor of the resolution; eight countries abstained from the vote. “This is a […]
You might not think of libraries as bastions of sustainability. But Wake Forest’s beloved Z. Smith Reynolds library is a unique, constantly evolving entity, and this quality extends to its sustainable practices. From providing information literacy courses for undergraduates, to hosting low-waste events, to refurbishing […]
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court ruled against the EPA in West Virgina vs. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The case, a face-off over how much power the EPA has to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under the Clear Air Act, has important ramifications for […]
In 2014, the inaugural cohort of students in the Wake Forest University Master of Arts in Sustainability (MAS) program sat for their first class. Now, just eight years later, the program’s 100th student is enrolled and slated to graduate this fall. MAS, which was originally […]
Scholarship and cross-cutting collaboration are the Wake Forest way. In support of these activities, the Center for Energy, Environment & Sustainability (CEES) has been awarding small grants to groups of faculty and student groups working on sustainability-related projects since 2010. We have funded pilot research […]
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases at the same time the IPCC Sixth Assessment Working Group II Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was released. CEES’s Stan Meiburg […]
On February 23-24, 2022, the Wake Forest University Intercultural Center and the Program for Leadership and Character will hold the Indigenous Environmental Justice Leadership series. The series consists of three events investigating the problems to which Indigenous environmental justice leadership responds, the forms this […]