Penguins waddling across Antarctic ice might seem far removed from a classroom in New Jersey, but a new study shows that these charismatic birds can be a powerful hook for teaching young people about climate change — and inspiring them to see themselves as future... Read more at tinyurl.com/yw2m6as5

RCEI affiliate Sue Huang is using speculative and critical design to bring long-dead plant species in New Jersey back to life in the collective human consciousness. Her latest work is a collaborative effort founded in both science and the imagination – one that... Read more at tinyurl.com/4skn8tyx

RCEI affiliate and Distinguished Professor Robert Kopp (Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University) recently appeared on Tidal Flooding Talk, the only weekly show in America dedicated to coastal flooding and resiliency, presented by the New ... Read more at tinyurl.com/448je4jj

At a reception hosted at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. on March 4, Professor and RCEI affiliate Siobain Duffy and her international research team were recognized with the Pioneering UK–US Breakthroughs (PUB) Award, a distinction honoring seven ... Read more at tinyurl.com/mv2ty95d

New research finds that news stories about who is most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change can have very different effects — depending on whether they focus on race or income. Climate change doesn’t harm everyone equally. Flooding, heat waves, and other... Read more at tinyurl.com/pvfk2ud9

Plants are remarkably good at adjusting how they capture sunlight and produce food through photosynthesis. A new computer model helps scientists better understand these adjustments by looking at what happens at different heights within a plant canopy, from the ... Read more at tinyurl.com/2xbjrcva

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study published in 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, a Rutgers-led team of scientists found ... Read more at tinyurl.com/36254ysz

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor and RCEI affiliate Qizhong (George) Guo, a leader in water resources engineering, is the director of the Rutgers University School of Engineering's Urban and Coastal Water Systems Laboratory. Since ... Read more at tinyurl.com/45cv6dxy

Congratulations to RCEI affiliate Eric Lam, who has received the Provost Award for Pioneering Research, a part of the annual Chancellor and Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence – a statement to his wealth of intellectual contributions to Rutgers University. Learn more at : tinyurl.com/2j2zyswn

Natural disasters have shaped the course of history in more ways than people can imagine. In his new book, “Wicked Weather: Natural Disasters that Changed History,” Rutgers University—Newark Distinguished Service Professor and RCEI affiliate Alexander Gates ... Read more at tinyurl.com/4b6udzrr

As any diver knows, oceans can be cloudy places. Even on sunny days, snow-like particles drift through the water column, obscuring the aquatic world below. Scientists have long known that this “marine snow” carries inorganic calcium carbonate – the building ... Read more at tinyurl.com/mmj4p27k

A bird banking in a crosswind doesn’t rely on spinning blades. Its wings flex, twist and respond instantly to its environment. Engineers at Rutgers University have taken a major step toward building bird-like drones that move the same way, flapping their wings ... Read more at tinyurl.com/yt3ypzrp

Ask a New Jersey middle schooler what they think about when choosing what to eat, and you’ll probably hear: taste, texture, and whether it’ll upset their stomach. Ask them what they do to help the planet, and they’ll mention picking up litter or recycling. What ... Read more at tinyurl.com/bdz44rtd

A mysterious disease has been quietly destroying coral reefs across the Caribbean for over a decade. Stony coral tissue loss disease, or SCTLD, causes coral tissue to simply fall away, killing entire colonies — and no one has been able to pinpoint exactly what... Read more at tinyurl.com/4f8vtfuh

The 2026 Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Annual Conference convened on January 15 at the Busch Student Center, bringing together faculty, staff, and stakeholders from across New Jersey. The annual gathering provided a shared space for networking, professional... Read more at tinyurl.com/4db7zt5v

Miles off the coast of New Jersey and New England, two major forces are converging: the rapid expansion of offshore wind energy and some of the most valuable fisheries in the United States. A new editorial published in Fisheries Oceanography takes stock of what... Read more at tinyurl.com/mupxerv3

In laboratories and greenhouses at Rutgers University-New Brunswick – alongside collaborators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Florida and Bar-Ilan University – scientists are advancing plant breeding innovations to protect one of the ... Read more at tinyurl.com/2p73kjya

Droughts are the world’s most widespread natural disaster, and climate change is making them longer, more intense, and possibly more frequent. But how much do droughts actually hurt local economies and can water storage help cushion that blow? A new study tackles.. Read more at tinyurl.com/bdzz5vkr

Rutgers researchers have made a discovery that could change the future of seafood farming in New Jersey. A study led by marine scientist and RCEI affiliate Daphne Munroe has shown that Atlantic surfclams can be successfully farmed in the open ocean. Her research... Read more at tinyurl.com/mpm95869

A study published by the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies in collaboration with Rutgers University, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), presents a roadmap for harnessing global-scale trace gas and ... Read more at tinyurl.com/2r46sp5h

Faculty from SEBS and NJAES gathered on Rutgers’ Cook Campus in January to kick off a dialogue that the SEBS Office of Research hopes will lead to an increase in the high-quality, cross-disciplinary research at Rutgers that often significantly impacts the state ... Read more at tinyurl.com/3tacntsp

Cities across China are transforming to become more environmentally sustainable, but this “green transition” is happening very unevenly—and new research reveals that the biggest gaps aren’t between provinces, but between cities within the same province. A study... Read more at tinyurl.com/4z8jsz45

An article from Inside Climate News examines how powerful winter storms can trigger dangerous coastal flooding in New Jersey—highlighting that nor’easters, not just hurricanes, pose serious risks to the state’s densely populated shoreline.The story focuses on a... Read more at tinyurl.com/z8uabbc4

As wind turbines grow taller to capture stronger and steadier winds over the ocean, predicting how much electricity they’ll generate becomes more complex. A new study published in the journal Technometrics, one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in statistics... Read more at tinyurl.com/mpbrwjms

The Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation is among the recipients of a New Jersey Economic Development Authority grant to help strengthen the state’s food security infrastructure. The institute, known as RICSI, is part of Rutgers Business School. The... Read more at tinyurl.com/mr2hvnd5

RCEI affiliate Onur Bilgen, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, elected to spend his 2025 spring semester sabbatical at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology’s (AAiT) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering... Read more at tinyurl.com/56rw5kk6

Imagine waking up before sunrise to nature’s chorus, trusting that the river near your home will provide your family with nutritious food and sustain life in the community. Yet, each year, shifting seasonal patterns make the river more unpredictable and its ... Read more at tinyurl.com/ycy7yxzb

Annually, the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters (LCV) presents their top award, the Sustainability Award, to “an institution or business that is at the forefront of building a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable future for New Jersey.” This year... Read more at tinyurl.com/mwfh4mww

RCEI affiliate Corday Selden, assistant professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has been selected to receive The Oceanography Society (TOS) Early Career Award. The honor .... Read and learn more about Seldon's work at tinyurl.com/5n8c87bu

Not all solar panels are set up the same way. Some are fixed in place, tilted toward the sun. Others track the sun’s movement throughout the day. Scientists have long known that adding a special coating to solar panels helps them capture more sunlight... Read and learn more at tinyurl.com/3n3y92xc

According to a new Rutgers-coauthored paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), climate risk analysis is underperforming in some of the most basic expectations of openness. The study found that of 258 top-cited climate risk... Read more at tinyurl.com/2nrch5hc

An article from SciTechDaily reports on new research that helps solve a long-standing climate mystery: why Earth transitioned from an extremely warm “greenhouse” planet after the age of dinosaurs to the relatively much cooler, ice-capped world we know today ... Read more at tinyurl.com/yc5ku5yc

An article from Media Matters for America covers a recent CNN segment that invited Rutgers University climate scientist, lead author on U.N. climate assessments, and RCEI affiliate Robert Kopp on air to push back against a common piece of climate misinformation... Read more at tinyurl.com/yc8ffa5y

An article from WHYY reports on New Jersey’s newly finalized coastal building regulations that require new construction in flood-prone areas along the Jersey Shore to be built significantly higher to account for future sea level rise driven by climate change ... Read more at tinyurl.com/yh8b7j9s

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean salty blob. In a groundbreaking study of ancient ocean geochemistry, a Rutgers researcher and a former Rutgers graduate student have found... Read more at tinyurl.com/2s3jyyan

A new partnership between Rutgers University, Stockton University, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and marine technology company Ocean Power Technologies Inc. will bring new life to a historic ocean research program off the Jersey Shore... Read and learn more at tinyurl.com/mwrkjmnw

Ammonia is essential for making fertilizers that help feed the world, but producing it typically requires massive amounts of energy and releases significant greenhouse gases. Now, researchers have found a promising new way to create ammonia while simultaneously... Read more at tinyurl.com/chshmxsa

Long before they even leave port, Rutgers oceanographic research colleagues and RCEI affiliates Joe Gradone and Corday Selden are thinking about their packing list. It won’t include beach chairs and novels. They are planning for crates of sensors, autonomous ... Read more at tinyurl.com/47jrwj92

An article from CBS News examines how a major winter storm forecast across much of the United States has been misused by President Trump to cast doubt on climate change—and why scientists say that argument doesn’t hold up. The story explains that President ... Read more at tinyurl.com/tzyp2ecu

Rutgers School of Engineering (SoE) Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Assistant Professor Aziz Ezzat is an affiliate of the Rutgers AI and Data Science (RAD) group and of the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute (RCEI). His expertise extends to ... Read more at tinyurl.com/3hyarjx4

An article from TIME (magazine) explains how climate change is reshaping Americans’ expectations of a “white Christmas,” and why snowy holiday memories don’t always line up with reality. Long-term weather data and climate trends indicate that widespread snow on... Read more at tinyurl.com/3vkzstdr

About 3.3 million years ago, during a period called the Pliocene epoch when Earth’s atmosphere contained CO₂ levels similar to today’s, a short but intense cooling event occurred that scientists call Marine Isotope Stage M2. Understanding what happened during ... Read more at tinyurl.com/3x48wdzs

While equity in climate adaptation is increasingly recognized, university-based research can inadvertently reinforce inequities. Inequities often arise when research fails to engage communities, overlooks relevant concerns, lacks trust, or misinterprets... Read more at tinyurl.com/2uvkp65u

When basil crops across the United States began collapsing 15 years ago, farmers were desperate. A mysterious strain of downy mildew began wiping out crops with no treatments, no way to stop the disease from spreading and no basil varieties that were resistant... Read more at tinyurl.com/44f2uapa

Long before becoming an atmospheric scientist, Dr. Anthony J. Broccoli was just a young boy glued to the window, searching the skies for any signs of snow. Like many children, he hoped for an impromptu day off from school. His early curiosity in predicting snow... Read more at tinyurl.com/3hu695rz

An article from Inside Climate News examines New Jersey’s newly updated Energy Master Plan—an ambitious blueprint aiming for 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 and major emissions cuts by midcentury—and why achieving those goals is becoming more difficult ... Read more at tinyurl.com/wp282hef

Amidst discontent from countries and accusations of procedural misconduct, the Brazilian presidency of this year’s annual meeting of the United Nations negotiations on climate change (known as the Conference of the Parties or COP) brought COP30 Brazil to a ... Read more at tinyurl.com/mhdb5wdr

When countries make plans to fight climate change, they often focus heavily on energy efficiency—making buildings, appliances, and vehicles use less energy. But a new study suggests this approach might be missing the bigger picture. Clinton Andrews, RCEI ... Read more at tinyurl.com/38r2w438

What if the key to solving our planet’s biggest challenges lies with young people? A new study shows that empowering youth to develop innovative solutions could accelerate progress toward global sustainability goals–but only if we give them the right support ... Read more at tinyurl.com/45sjjr5s

An article from Inside Climate News reports on a major new scientific assessment showing that sea-level rise is accelerating in New Jersey, sharply increasing the state’s exposure to flooding, erosion, and other climate-driven coastal hazards. Produced by the... Read more at tinyurl.com/yc45cj37