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From Metabolic Rift to Metabolic Repair: A Comment on Ariel Salleh’s ‘DeColonize EcoModernism!’

Selina Gallo-Cruz

The article, authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, was published in Globalizations.

August 5, 2026

Bendix Speaks With the Associated Press About the Wildfires in Spain and France

“We’ve known for decades that extreme heat and drought are becoming more common due to anthropogenic climate change. So the general outline of these events, if not all the details, was tragically predictable,” explains Jacob Bendix, professor emeritus of geography and the environment.

August 3, 2026

Maxwell Scholar Wins Fulbright to Study Bahamas Poaching, Border Security

Diane Stirling

Anthropologist Kyrstin Mallon Andrews will examine how illegal fishing affects the country's culture, economy, ecology and national security.

July 21, 2026

Demobilization by Policy Paradoxes

Selina Gallo-Cruz

The article, authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, was published in the Journal of Political Power.

July 8, 2026

McCormick Quoted in CS Monitor Article on Venezuela Earthquakes, Implications and Trump

“This disaster throws a wrench in the White House and State Department plan for securing and stabilizing the circum-Caribbean region that includes Venezuela,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.

July 6, 2026

Using an AI Chatbot to Improve Access to Lake Skaneateles Watershed Regulations

Lucas Colleluori and Tomás Olivier
This May 2026 Research to Practice Brief summarizes "Using an AI Chatbot to Improve Access to Lake Skaneateles Watershed Regulations," co-authored by Lucas Colleluori (Syracuse University) and Tomás Olivier (Syracuse University).
June 11, 2026

Natural Disasters, Property Reappraisal, and Fiscal Outcomes

Meri Davlasheridze, Yilin Hou, Qing Miao

Co-authored by Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs, the study was published in the Journal of Housing Economics.

June 4, 2026

Sultana Featured in Financial Times Documentary on Oil Frontiers and Energy Security

“We have a distorted global economic system that rewards fossil fuel extraction, that rewards fossil fuel dependency. And as a result, it is harder for smaller countries that are worried about their own energy security, their own economic security, their own social social development to forgo an oil discovery,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.

June 2, 2026

Do Democrats Still Need to Campaign on Climate Change? Huber Discusses in the New York Times

Policies such as public investments in infrastructure like housing and electricity will help address climate change, says Matt Huber, professor of geography and the environment. But there is little reason for politicians to focus on the issue anymore, he says.

May 14, 2026

Bendix Speaks With the Associated Press About Fire Testing and Increased Fire Potential

Jacob Bendix, professor emeritus of geography and the environment, calls a recent study on the number of hours in North America when the weather is favorable for wildfires a sobering reminder of climate change’s role in driving “increased fire potential across almost all of the fire-prone environments of North America.”

April 23, 2026

‘Never Disappear’: Chie Sakakibara Is Changing Climate Research From the Inside Out

Catherine Scott

The professor’s decades-long partnerships with Indigenous Arctic and Japanese communities are yielding a new model for climate research—one that Maxwell is deliberately building on.

April 3, 2026

Maxwell Faculty Help Bring Alutiiq Artist Linda Infante Lyons to Syracuse

Colette Goldstein

Chie Sakakibara and Timur Hammond, co-hosts of the artist’s residency with the Syracuse University Humanities Center, have coordinated upcoming conversations on the power of art and storytelling.

March 27, 2026

Rising Waters, Falling Taxes: The Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Property Tax Assessments in NYC

Wei Guo, Qing Miao, Yusun Kim, Yilin Hou

Co-authored by Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs, the study was published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

February 26, 2026

Sultana Discusses Hydro-Coercion and Water Justice in Counterpoint and Daily Star Articles

“For Bangladesh, water is far more than a resource; it is the vital pulse of our ecological resilience and the primary determinant of our human vulnerability. Yet, in the high-stakes geopolitical landscape of South Asia, our rivers are increasingly being reconfigured from lifelines into instruments of hydro-coercion,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.

January 28, 2026

See related: Government, India, South Asia, Water

From Hydro-Hegemony to Hydro-Coercion

Farhana Sultana

The study, authored by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in Human Geography.

January 27, 2026

See related: Government, India, South Asia, Water

Pralle Quoted in Seattle Times Article on Outdated Skagit County Flood Maps

The maps are a tool to communicate more realistic flood risks to vulnerable groups, says Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science. You can plug your address into a FEMA webpage and it will tell you your property’s flood risk. “But,” Pralle says, “if you don’t know where the risky areas are, none of that works.”

December 23, 2025

A Comparative Analysis of Sustainable Holistic Planning System Toolkit Designs

Anne E. Mosher, Stephen Bird, Santosh K. Mahapatra, Susan E. Powers, Joseph D. Skufca, Erik C. Backus

Co-authored by Anne Mosher, associate professor of geography and the environment, the article was published in Landscape and Urban Planning.

December 18, 2025

Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate Coloniality

Farhana Sultana

The study, written by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in GEO: Geography and Environment.

December 17, 2025

Koch’s Insights Featured in Channel News Asia Story on Mongolia’s Plan to Move its Capital City

Mongolia’s leaders plan to move the nation’s capital from increasingly congested Ulaanbaatar to the culturally-significant yet undeveloped area called Kharkhorum. But Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment, says, “Buildings on a blank slate, it's a lovely image, but it doesn't solve any of those bigger structural issues in a state."

November 21, 2025

MPH Alumna Awarded Prestigious Applied Epidemiology Fellowship in Seattle

Aspiring to a career in wastewater epidemiology, Catherine Faruolo hopes to expand on the knowledge, skills and perspective she gained at Syracuse. 

November 18, 2025

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