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Creating Communities to Help Interdisciplinary Scientists Thrive
Dr. Navin Ramankutty explains that as more researchers connect across disciplinaries, science will be better able to pursue solutions that address complex, urgent problems to secure livelihoods, food security and to safeguard our planet’s environmental health.
Picture credits: Attendees socialize during an event at the 5th Open Science Meeting for the Global Land Programme (GLP) in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2024. Credit: Ximena Fargas
A Reminder About The Food We Eat: “Every Seed We Place In The Earth Is An Act Of Trust”
🍎🍗How can we reconcile our love of food with the reality that many are sourced in ways that are warming our planet? Research by Juan Diego Martinez and Navin Ramankutty explains how agricultural policies can make peace with the climate through different declarations.
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Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action
☺️🌍 The fight against climate change is often framed as a sacrifice, Jade Radke’s study finds presenting environmental action in a proactive light makes people more likely to act. “Clear, actionable alternatives make it easier for people to engage,” Radke explains.
Bicycle rush hour in Copenhagen, Denmark. Image by Mikael Colville-Andersen via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ).
Dropping EV mandate for emissions standard ‘a mistake’ in Carney’s auto strategy: Climate scientist
🚗⚡Simon Donner shares his viewpoint about Mark Carney’s new automotive plan, which he believes is ‘hamstrung by the fact that we work with the North American automakers who are influenced by the U.S. government – and who are frankly behind on electric vehicles.’
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Silvopasture Gains Momentum in the Amazon, but Can It Shrink Beef’s Footprint?
“Farmers may seem like the main decisionmakers, but actually macro-scale factors like policies and market conditions are what drive adoption” explains Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas who is featured in the Good Men Project for her research on silvopastoral systems, which combine trees and pasture.
Your dinner may be heating up the planet: study shows that almost half the world’s population needs to change their diet.
🌍🍔 IRES student Dr. Juan Diego Martinez’s study shows that food systems account for more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity and encourages people to “vote with their forks.”
September 24, 2026: Student Seminar with Bulgan Batdorj
Transparency is widely promoted in mining governance as a pathway to accountability, yet disclosure does not automatically produce these outcomes. Bulgan Batdorj draws on four transparency frameworks to illustrate how interventions could be designed to support disclosure.
September 17, 2026: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Bavisha Kalyan
This presentation argues that democratizing scientific knowledge is essential for developing engineering solutions that are both technically robust and advance social and environmental justice.
Why most Americans misjudge which personal decisions contribute most to climate change
🌍 While most Americans misjudge which personal decisions contribute to climate change, Dr. Jiaying Zhao explains how more readily available information can help people more accurately estimate which actions are most effective.
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