While the proposal boosts NASA’s budget to explore other worlds, what about the one we’ve already got?

Earth Institute researchers are in the field studying the dynamics of the planet on every continent and every ocean. Here is a list of projects.

Students will investigate policy or management problems faced by their clients in government and nonprofit agencies.

Why Malcom Ferdinand advocates for ecological movements to engage in the struggle against racism, and vice versa.

How biomimicry and evolution can offer sustainable solutions for adaptation and resilience.

Conservation initiatives in the region can only be successful when they transcend boundaries, much the same way nature itself transcends boundaries.

Supports policies that protect and regenerate natural forests instead of planting new ones.

Environmental Science and Policy students analyze legislation meant to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction.

Centuries-old trees on a peninsula near New York City could provide an important record of past storms. Researchers recently traveled there to sample the trees before they are wiped out by rising seas and powerful storms.

In a recent talk, a visiting scholar argued that Earth’s energy balance is out of whack, and it’s up to humanity to fix it.