Unprecedented warming in equatorial Pacific Ocean could last up to seven years A nuclear war could trigger an unprecedented El Niño-like warming episode in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, slashing algal populations by 40 percent and likely lowering the fish catch, according to a Rutgers-led study. The research, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, shows […]
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Freakish ice cube shows the scale of Earth’s vanishing ice
Bob Kopp – Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
NJ municipalities warned they will need to take a bigger role in climate planning
Rutgers University
Announcement: Leadership Changes at Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science
Announcement by Laura J. Lawson, Interim Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Interim Executive Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that James (Jim) Murphy, extension specialist in turfgrass management, and Stacy Bonos, professor of turfgrass breeding, have been named director and […]
Research and Teaching in the Glass-room
Whether covered in glass or polyethylene, the most diverse spaces on the George H. Cook campus are the greenhouses–with one making agricultural history and revolutionizing the industry. The prominence of greenhouses on the George H. Cook campus reflects the orientation of the school toward the natural sciences. However, not transparent is the impressive number and […]
Biden’s climate crusade: How his plan to cut carbon emissions, create jobs could impact U.S.
Robert Kopp – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Biden administration must mobilize ‘entire federal government’ to face climate crisis
Robert Kopp – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Opinion: Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines
National Moth Week (Liti Haramaty, Dept. Marine and Coastal Sciences; David Moskowitz, alum)
The Road from Food Science to the Jamaican Senate for Alumna Sherene Golding Campbell
Newly appointed in September 2020 as a senator in her native Jamaica, Sherene Golding Campbell is among a record number of women in that nation’s parliament: eight out of 21 Senate members, and 18 of 63 in the House of Representatives. Although Golding Campbell GSNB’02 traveled a twisting road from studying food biology to evaluating […]
Climate change: New Jersey had its second-warmest year on record in 2020
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
