Sustainability
UConn Magazine: Bee Good
'Raina is different. She has the eye of the tiger, she has the thing you cannot teach, so you just try to support it'
December 10, 2021 | Claire Hall, and Jaclyn Severance
Closer Collaboration and Community Outreach for Urban Sustainability, Together at Hartford Campus
The partnership between CIRCA and SCGI aims to help build more environmentally sustainable and resilient cities
December 9, 2021 | Elaina Hancock
Eversource and UConn Extend Energy Center Partnership
The goal is to make Connecticut a national leader in addressing climate change, clean energy, and more
December 8, 2021 | Eli Freund
Diagnosis from the Sky: Catching Insect Infestations within Forests Before It’s Too Late
Fine-tuning remote sensing to protect forests from the spread of dangerous critters
December 6, 2021 | Elaina Hancock
The Power of the Green Zone at COP26
'It re-framed climate change, and gave me the chance to reflect instead of continuously looking forward with anxiousness'
December 3, 2021 | Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Professor of Geography and Director of Environmental Studies
CIRCA Awarded $5 million in New Funding to Strengthen CT’s Climate Change Resilience
CIRCA is creating a 'project pipeline' to move resilience planning and adaptation forward
November 16, 2021 | Elaina Hancock
Reflections on COP26: Uncertainty and Hope
Many countries have committed to further reductions, but still not enough to reduce warming to the critical 1.5C threshold
November 15, 2021 | Mark Urban, Arden Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
COP26: A UConn Perspective on the Climate Change Summit
CIRCA's Jim O'Donnell shares his on-the-ground perspective from the momentous conference in Scotland
November 12, 2021 | Jim O'Donnell, CIRCA Executive Director
UConn Researchers to Explore Marine Life, Human-Sea Interaction
The projects touch on everything from the effects of climate change on marine animals to how coastal communities respond to flood risk
November 5, 2021 | Judy Benson, Connecticut Sea Grant
Marine National Monument Offshore from Connecticut is Protected Once Again
'Not only is it a place where the science community can study what the ocean should look like in the absence of effects like fishing and mining, it's a place for the American public'
November 3, 2021 | Elaina Hancock