Environment & Sustainability Archive

A new Wake Forest-involved study published in Nature Microbiology reveals that virus-infected ocean microbes release chemical signals that attract other bacteria before they die, reshaping our understanding of the marine food web.

Wake Forest remote sensing expert Ovidiu Csillik joins a $1 million NASA-funded team using lidar technology to produce the most accurate measurements yet of carbon storage changes in tropical forests over time.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s new Charlotte campus is set to become the nation’s first net-zero medical school, embedding sustainability into both building design and the curriculum future physicians will learn.

Wake Forest Magazine profiles five faculty across engineering, communication, English, statistics, and environmental policy whose courses challenge students to examine their relationship with nature — from Winston-Salem floodplains to the Serengeti.

Wake Forest biology professor Miles Silman and journalism professor Justin Catanoso take students deep into the Peruvian Amazon to experience its breathtaking biodiversity firsthand — and document the destruction threatening it.