A new study published in the journal, Environmental Research Letters, reports that cooling the planet by injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere—a proposed climate intervention technique—could reduce the nutritional value of the world’s crops. Scientists at Rutgers University used global climate and crop models to estimate how stratospheric aerosol intervention (SAI), one type of solar […]
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Ocean Currents Act Like Underwater Highways, Delivering Food to Antarctic Wildlife
In Antarctica’s frigid waters, tiny shrimp-like creatures called krill are the foundation of the entire ocean food web, feeding everything from penguins to whales. But how do these krill—and the microscopic plants they eat—end up in the right place at the right time? A new study reveals that ocean currents act like invisible highways, concentrating […]
Scientists Meet in Cape Town to Plan Future Climate Intervention Research
Scientists around the world are studying different ways we might respond to climate change, including controversial approaches called solar radiation modification (SRM), which aims to reflect some of the sun’s energy back to space to cool the Earth. To better understand how these approaches might work, researchers need to run complex computer simulations using climate […]
In a World First, Autonomous Robot Glider to Circle the Globe in Historic Ocean Mission
Guided by the rhythms of the sea and the promise of discovery, Teledyne Marine and Rutgers University set Redwing, an autonomous underwater vehicle, on its journey on Friday, Oct. 10, leading to its launch into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The launch marked the beginning of a five-year mission […]
New Arctic Bacteria Could Help Us Understand Climate Change’s Impact on Carbon Release
In a recent study published in ISME Communications, researchers discovered five brand-new species of cold-loving bacteria in the Arctic tundra of northern Finland. Lee Kerkhof, professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and Max Häggblom, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology—both affiliates of the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute—are co-authors on […]
UN Panel Selects Three Rutgers Researchers as Lead Authors on Next Global Climate Report
A United Nations-affiliated science panel has named three Rutgers scientists as lead authors on a report that will serve as the next worldwide assessment of climate change. Rutgers University-New Brunswick faculty members Robert Kopp, Pamela McElwee and Kevon Rhiney were selected to contribute to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Seventh Assessment Report. The reports produced by the […]
Call For Urgent, Coordinated Global Action To Safeguard Microbial Heritage
A letter published today by co-author Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, the Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology in the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, in Nature Microbiology highlights how human activities are rapidly transforming global microbial ecosystems, with major consequences for health, agriculture, and the environment. Dominguez-Bellow […]
Researchers Track How Iron Deficiency Disrupts Photosynthesis in Crucial Ocean Algae
The next time you breathe, consider this: photosynthesis of algae, powered by iron dust in the ocean, made it possible. Now, a new Rutgers University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pulls back the curtain on this vital process. Iron is a critical micronutrient for marine phytoplankton, the microscopic algae that form the foundation […]
Be it Feast or Famine, Orangutans Adapt With Flexible Diets
Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries of food supply in the wild, according to an international team of researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick […]
National Association Establishes the Dr. Carl Pray Appreciation Club in Recognition of his Outstanding Global Contributions
At the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), scholars, colleagues and friends came together to celebrate the establishment of the Dr. Carl Pray Appreciation Club in recognition of the outstanding scholarly contributions, mentorship and international leadership of Carl Pray, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics (DAFRE) […]
