Penny Langhammer, CBO research affiliate and ASU adjunct professor of biology in the School of Life Sciences, travels the world to help develop an international standard for the identification of Key

When we last spoke with Sharyn Tom, she was graduating from the School of Sustainability with a Bachelor of Science in the Economics of Sustainability. She also obtained a Bachelor

Every truck of organic material diverted away from the landfill strengthens ASU’s commitment to sustainable business practices. Compost is immensely beneficial because it decreases methane emissions from landfills; treats waste

In a recent contribution to Nature, Distinguished Sustainability Scientist Bruce Rittmann and co-authors describe how to make wastewater treatment – a historically costly process – not only cost-efficient, but profitable through the capture of valuable chemicals like useful forms of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.

On Dec. 7, members of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) gather in Paris for three days to discuss global solutions for addressing climate change, sustainable development and

In a recent contribution to the Journal of Sustainability Education titled "On Hope and Agency in Sustainability: Lessons from Arizona State University," School of Sustainability Dean Christopher Boone examines why students are attracted to sustainability programs and how ASU prepares students to work toward a desirable future.

Janet Franklin, a distinguished sustainability scientist and professor in ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in

During a November panel discussion titled “Bringing the Global Community to the Table: Paris 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference” at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, panel members – including sustainability scholar Dan Bodansky – expressed optimism about the conference in light of game-changing domestic, climate-related moves.

ASU sustainability scientists Petra Fromme, Robert Page and Billie Lee Turner II were nominated for the title Regents' Professor by President Michael Crow and were approved by the Arizona Board of Regents

Ann Marie Raymondi, a 2013 graduate of the School of Sustainability's Master of Science program, has been named a NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Graduate Fellow following a rigorous selection process. Now pursuing her master’s in biology at Boise State, Raymondi will use the award to examine the effects of fire and climate change on plant communities in the sagebrush-steppe system.

USAID has awarded new scholarship funding to ASU’s Global Development Research Scholar program for students to engage with biodiversity projects in Brazil. Biodiversity projects led by CBO faculty affiliates and

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis recently awarded CBO funding from the Science for Nature and People (SNAP) program to support a working group led by lead investigators