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Smoke chokes a forest landscape in Eagle Point, Oregon
UO students help develop local smoke management plans
Anna Murphy and Stuart Warren, students involved with the Institute for Policy Research and Engagement at the University of Oregon, are featured. 
A burned and blackened tree stands out against a sparse background of rolling hills
UO team works in burned forestland to give bees a better chance
KGW-TV: Lauren Ponisio, assistant professor of biology at the University of Oregon, is featured.
A snowy mountain landscape unfolds behind a herd of elk
New Big Game Migration Maps Support Conservation Planning Across the West
North American Clean Energy: Maps were produced in collaboration with the InfoGraphics Lab at the University of Oregon. 
Stuart Warren
Smoke and plants: University of Oregon Studying Smoke Management
Ag Info: University of Oregon community and regional planning graduate student Stuart Warren is featured. 
Michael Fakhri
Michael Fakhri discusses hunger, human rights, sustainable food systems for CFS Conversations series
Oregon Law professor and faculty leader of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center's Food Resiliency Project, Michael Fakhri has been the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food since 2020. 
Two state-of-the-art Pan-Tilt-Zoom fire cameras provide real-time monitoring of the surrounding area
New Wildfire Cameras Will Spot Fires on the Santa Barbara Front Country
The Montecito Journal: University of Oregon is a member of the ALERT Wildfire consortium. 
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Our view: Forest plan will be built with better, more specific data
The La Grande Observer: The Ecosystem Workforce Program (Institute for a Sustainable Environment) at the University of Oregon provided data. 
heat pump
Heat pumps are an energy upgrade for homeowners that's becoming a climate and financial winner
CNBC: Joshua Skov, senior instructor of management at the University of Oregon, provides expert commentary.
bird's eye view of University of Oregon campus
Wish You Were Here. Ignore the Floods and Fires.
New York Times: Cites project from the University of Oregon Institute for a Sustainable Environment. 
Headshots of Danny Pimentel, Greg Dotson, and Marsha Weisiger
Environment Initiative names 3 faculty members as fellows
The University of Oregon's Environment Initiative has named professors Danny Pimentel, Greg Dotson, and Marsha Weisiger as its 2023 faculty fellows. 
Cars drive along a highway
This is the impact EVs have on the environment, according to an expert
The Manual: Steve Mital, sustainability director in campus planning and facilities management at the University of Oregon, provides expert commentary.
a busy city street lined with colorful umbrellas and palm trees
Moving Towards Sustainable Cities: Linking Climate Action and VLRs
IISD: Coauthor Yizhao Yang is associate professor of planning, public policy, and management at the University of Oregon. 
The surface tension of a body of water breaks with one globular drop
Two Years Later, the Oregon Water Justice Framework is Live!
The report was led and compiled by Oregon Water Futures, a collaborative between Verde, Coalition of Communities of Color, Oregon Environmental Council, Willamette Partnership, and the University of Oregon's Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center.
Wildfire smoke fills the sky as a mountainside burns
Students at the U of O are helping to build community response to smoky skies
KGW-TV: University of Oregon community and regional planning graduate students Anna Murphy and Stuart Warren are featured. 
Lauren Ponisio uses a net to catch bees during a survey in Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Making Nature Less Predictable
bioGraphic: Research from Lauren Ponisio, assistant professor of biology at the University of Oregon, is featured.