Here's to another year enabling better lives through sustainability

Thank you for being part of the world's most innovative sustainability laboratory and supporting our effort to advance solutions, engagement, education, research and the U.N. Sustainability Development Goals – both around

Student makes huge impact with wine and butterflies during undergraduate internship

Christine Carmazzi, an undergraduate student pursuing her Bachelor’s in the international development track, was able to obtain the highly sought after Sustainability and Harvest internship at the Patton Valley Vineyard.

Direct air capture of CO2 engineered design

The world can no longer postulate a scenario that maintains global temperature rise at or below 4 degrees C, without significant removal of existing CO2 from the air. Based on

Sneak peek inside ASU's Biodesign C expansion under construction

Biodesign C, the $120 million building expansion of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, continues to rise along Rural Road at ASU’s Tempe campus. Much of the building is

Governance and biodiversity

The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes led a Governance and Biodiversity Workshop on December 12, 2017 with the intention of building local empirical governance work to scale. This workshop, which

British diplomat examines US stance on climate change

On the heels of the One Planet summit, Distinguished Sustainability Fellow Sir Crispin Tickell tells ASU Now that political leadership and clear communication of consequences are key ingredients in the remedy to climate change denial in the United States. 

Supporting science to sustain our planet

In a December 2017 interview with Juli Staiano – Chief Philanthropy Officer for the American Association for the Advancement of Science – ASU Wrigley Institute board member Robert Litterman gave his reasons for giving back to the field.

IUCN Red List updates: Food security threats and endangered animals

In a recent press conference in Tokyo, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, Red List of Threatened Species revealed that species of wild rice, wheat and yam

Conservation and social media survey

ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Affiliated Student Heather Fischer is conducting a survey on nature conservation and social media via The Marine Conservation and Biodiversity Lab in the School of

New publications shed light on translational ecology

ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber co-authored two publications in the December 2017 issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment aimed at cultivating a scientific community

Bright spots among the world's coral reefs

ASU-Conservation International Professor of Practice Jack Kittinger recently co-authored a journal publication titled “Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs” in Nature. The paper presents compiled data and analysis from

Now hiring! Part-time graduate student worker

The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, in partnership with the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance, is currently hiring an interdisciplinary graduate student worker to support exploration and analysis of the use