Climate change

A student at the Homer Babbidge Library, reading.

UConn Reads Announces ’24-’25 Selection: ‘All We Can Save’

A collection of provocative and illuminating essays from women on the front lines of climate change

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UConn, EPA Launch Regional Environmental Justice Center

The Environmental Protection Agency is backing UConn’s initiative through a $10 million federal grant

The new HuskyGo electric bus—the first of its kind in its fleet—sits next to the bus stops in the W Lot

Electric, Hybrid Buses Coming to UConn as Next Generation of Clean Transit

The electric buses produce no tailpipe emissions and provide all the features that today’s students need for a comfortable and productive ride

A beautiful picture of an healty coral reef

A Peculiar Algae with Significant Potential

Weird aspects of a big, cactus-shaped algae could be useful for things like coral reef conservation and regenerative biology while teaching us about how organisms coped with past climatic changes

A sign for the Sustainable Clean Energy Summit sits outside the Student Union

UConn and Eversource Host Third Annual Sustainable Clean Energy Summit

Gene Rodrigues, U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Electricity, served as keynote speaker

Image of vast permafrost

Arctic Capillaries: An Eye-Opening Symptom in a Swiftly Changing Landscape

'We identified more than 1 billion individualized ice wedge polygons, and there are billions left to be mapped, but this is the first effort'

A photo of a willow tree and Mirror Lake

Fast-growing and Versatile: UConn Researcher is Working to Plant More Willows

Multifaceted species appears everywhere from CT to the Arctic, and has a wide variety of uses, from erosion control to pollination

Waves crashing against a sea wall and houses

CIRCA: Serving Connecticut’s Coastal Communities and Beyond

As seas and temperatures rise, the Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation uses research and community engagement to protect communities across the state

Road sign indicating a hurricane warning

Prepare Now to Shelter from the Storm

From preparing as a family to how businesses can get ahead, UConn Extension has tips to help Connecticut communities ride out extreme storms safely

Reichgelt spotted this rock polygpody fern in Gay City State Park in Connecticut where a deciduous hardwood forest has overgrown the old waterworks. He says as evident from the graffiti, there's still quite a bit of human disturbance there, but the rock polypody seems to be ok with that, as long as it has the cover of the forest canopy.

City Fern, Country Fern: Citizen Science is Helping to Study Why Some Plants Love the City Life

If you want to create a diverse urban ecosystem, you want to include a diverse array of species because an ecosystem builds from the ground up