The Regeneration Research Program is designed to help faculty fill gaps created by the current constrained funding environment. Grant awards range from $5,000 to $20,000, depending on proposed needs and budget justification.

As humanity reckons with a climate shaped by a legacy of burning fossil fuels, implementing solutions we already have requires large-scale coordination and overcoming social challenges that stunt action.

Some of the rainiest places on Earth could see their annual precipitation nearly halved if climate change continues to alter the way ocean water moves around the globe. In a new study, scientists revealed that even a modest slowdown of a major Atlantic Ocean current could dry out rainforests, threaten vulnerable ecosystems and upend livelihoods across the tropics.

Chijun Sun, an assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at the College of Letters and Science, recently returned to land after a months-long trip aboard the Chikyu, a deep-sea scientific vessel investigating the seafloor following a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami.