Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE)

Mason’s 17 Rooms-U Initiative brought together Mason faculty, staff and students, along with community members, stakeholders and other external partners, in a virtual format to discuss sustainability goals.

It’s the stuff of nightmares and horror movies: Tiny estuarine mud crabs become infected with an invasive parasite that takes over their bodies and brains. But it isn’t fiction, and Mason’s team of researchers is learning more about these invaders and how they impact the ecology of our region.

Mason scientists Tom Lovejoy and Ed Maibach discuss global climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

Over the two past years, two George Mason University systems engineering senior design teams developed a tool to help two Maryland counties make complex financial decisions to reduce their CO2 emissions.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is working with a group of scientists from Mason’s Center for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies (COLA) to update its drought forecasting system.

Climate change is coming for your morning cup of joe. George Mason University neuroscience professor Theodore (Ted) Dumas is worried about that and thinks you should be too.

The installation of the first Bigbelly zero waste station on George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus aligns with the university’s waste reduction commitment and draws attention to how single-use consumption and disposal is connected to negative environmental outcomes.

George Mason University’s Ed Maibach is the most influential scientist working on climate change among America’s public universities

George Mason University’s Thomas Lovejoy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences this week, joining an elite group of 120 scholars recognized this year for their contributions to science and research.