For the final lecture of the 2019 Community Engagement Conference on Thursday, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson spoke to Ohio State faculty, students and other conference attendees about the importance of fighting climate change, as well as what people can do to slow it ...

Growing up in rural Ohio, Zac Graber was very active in his local 4-H, Farm Bureau and Future Farmers of America organizations. Little did he know back then in Liberty Center, Ohio, that these involvements would instill in Graber, a fourth-year in marketing, a passion ...

Passionate students, faculty and community members met at the Agricultural Administration Building on Monday to listen to bipartisan speakers discuss how to reach across the aisle to address issues of climate change. The speakers included state Rep. Kristin Boggs, several professors and Sarah Spence, the ...

A task force at Ohio State has released its years-long work for public feedback: a draft action plan to help central Ohio combat the issues that accompany climate change. This plan, compiled by researchers at Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC), offers ...

As images of flooded streets, torn-down homes and distressed families fill Ohio State students’ televisions and news feeds, some took to The Oval Thursday to honor those affected by the storms, also hoping to send one message: climate change matters. Representatives from Keep Wayne Wild, ...

Ohio State students gathered outside Sen. Rob Portman’s office in Huntington Plaza in downtown Columbus Tuesday to prove one point: Climate change matters to them. The students, working with nonpartisan environmental group Defend Our Future, delivered results from a poll conducted during the Student Involvement ...

Some professors are concerned for their environment-related research after President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all contracts and grants for the Environmental Protection Agency in January. Concern for research funding depended on the type of environmental research being conducted, which can range from the ...

Often times, environmental groups and energy companies find themselves at odds when it comes to policy issues. But Ohio State’s Environmental Professionals Network brought together not only its usual crowd of environmental professionals and students, but also utility company Columbia Gas of Ohio, which sponsored ...

In viral ecology, if a virus is a puzzle piece, then the whole virus community is a mixed bag of different puzzles, made up of tens of thousands pieces. Scientists at Ohio State discovered new puzzle pieces in marine waters that could one day help ...

Counting graduate and professional students, Ohio State has almost twice as many students as Monaco has citizens. But Prince Albert II didn’t seem fazed. Prince Albert II of Monaco visited OSU on Wednesday, where he addressed students on global climate practices and responsibilities. He also ...