This week on Possibly, in the second installment of our series on the dairy industry, we’re turning our attention to an age-old method used to efficiently store cheese: the earth.
Listen to this week's episode to hear how local farmers are looking to the soil to keep their cheese cool.
In part two of Possibly’s series on the dairy industry, we’re turning our attention to an age-old method used to efficiently store cheese
Congratulations to ENVS concentrators Riley Brooks '28 & Julia Sayre '27, who won apprenticeships with the Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund this summer!
Through ASLF, Brooks will work at @snugharborccbg.bsky.social and Sayre will work at Blackeyed Susan’s Sheep Dairy.
Learn more about the 2026 class:
Great news. Way to go @brown.edu! And thanks to the folks at @brown-ibes.bsky.social who helped make it happen.
IBES Dir. @kimcobb.bsky.social says a “proposal to base funding decisions on alignment with the [Trump] administration’s agenda is a particularly acute threat for climate & weather funding, which protects our nation’s infrastructure, economy, agriculture, public safety & national security.” @cnn.com
Through the Brown University Swearer Center for Public Service's Royce Fellowship program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship. Learn more:
Check out this new paper — led by grad affiliate Sebastian Muñoz, with IBES and DEEPS profs @danibarra.bsky.social & Laurence Smith, postdoc Gavin Piccione, grad affiliate Sarah Esenther, and @uafairbanks.bsky.social colleagues — in @agu.org's Geophysical Research Letters ⤵️
As Brown moves toward a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, the University will take a major step toward decarbonization and energy resiliency by creating a modern, sustainable thermal energy system on its College Hill campus.
Congrats to the recipients of the Brown Population Studies and Training Center's 2026 Seed Awards! This year's awardees include IBES & PSTC Research Prof Elizabeth Fussell, IBES affiliate & Brown University Department of Education Prof Matthew A Kraft, and IBES affiliate & Sociology Prof John Logan.
Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide ...
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Through the Swearer Center program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship.
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Ice sheet weathering favors silicate weathering, while alpine glacier weathering favors carbonate dissolution and pyrite oxidation Weathering fluxes from glaciers and ice sheets increase during p...
IBES & @brown-epi.bsky.social Asst Prof @rebaker.bsky.social is lead author of a new review article in @natmed.nature.com ⤵️
@pandemiccenter.bsky.social @brownpublichealth.bsky.social
Following a milestone 75% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, the University will establish a new campus heating network that reduces emissions and dramatically increases efficiency and resiliency.
The PSTC has selected this year’s Seed Award recipients.
pstc.brown.edu
The IBES-led Equitable Climate Futures initiative has announced its new awardees! Projects range from food equity to Indigenous climate action: https://ecf.brown.edu/news/2026-05-11/ecf-2026-awards
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As Brown moves toward a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, the University will take a major step toward decarbonization and energy resiliency by creating a modern, sustainable thermal energy system on its College Hill campus.
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Brown University
Jeff Colgan
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Following a milestone 75% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, the University will establish a new campus heating network that reduces emissions and dramatically increases efficiency and resiliency.
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)
Brown University
Our latest Review describes how #climate variables affect pathogen transmission, seasonality and outbreak patterns, how these interact with weather extremes and demographic change, & how current data streams can map future disease trajectories.
This Review examines how climate variables affect pathogen transmission, seasonality and outbreak patterns, how these interact with weather extremes and demographic change, and how current data streams can be leveraged to understand future disease trajectories.
