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Companies Lay Out Global Framework to Fight Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 02-20-2007 at 03:01:14
| As a significant step toward tackling climate change, an unprecedented group of companies and organizations from around the world have endorsed a bold post-Kyoto framework for affecting change at the levels of policy and industry, particularly in regard to creating sustainable energy systems necessary for achieving economic growth. |
Scientists Urge Revised Policies to Address Arsenic Problem in Bangladesh (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 12-21-2006 at 09:00:31
| An international group of scientists are suggesting new priorities for the next government of Bangladesh to advance the country's fight against naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. |
Mapping Socioeconomic Data Reveals Trends (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 12-07-2006 at 09:00:35
| Maps of U.S. Census data reveal trends in 35 categories such as housing density, linguistically isolated households, motor vehicle use, and education level. |
In Philippines, El Niño Means Drought (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 11-28-2006 at 12:01:44
| Casey Brown arrived in Manila in early November on the heels of a "super typhoon" that clocked 125-mile-per-hour winds. But for Manila, home to more than 10 million people, it is drought — not typhoons — that has led to rising tensions between urban dwellers and farmers who work just outside the city. |
What’s in an Isotope? Quite a Lot (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 11-16-2006 at 12:00:38
| A new technique developed by researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory now allows scientists to use an isotope of manganese not abundant on Earth to understand the record of millions of years of changes to the Earth's surface. |
Accounting for Katrina's Dead (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 10-23-2006 at 12:00:28
| A new project seeks to compile an online list of all Gulf Coast residents who died as a result of direct and indirect effects of the storm, calling on those who were there to contribute information. |
Gates Foundation Awards Earth Institute $15 Million for Poverty Effort (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 10-16-2006 at 09:00:24
| The Earth Institute at Columbia University has received $15 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to advance scientific research and efforts to slash poverty, disease and hunger in Africa. |
Edmund G. Phelps, Seminal Figure in Modern Economics, Wins Nobel Prize (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 10-09-2006 at 12:00:34
| Edmund Phelps, a seminal figure in modern economics, has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics. Phelps is head of the Center on Capitalism & Society at Columbia University, now within the Earth Institute, which conducts and promotes research on capitalism. He is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia. |
Alaskans Feel the Heat of Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 10-06-2006 at 06:00:48
| A new study shows that four out of five Alaskans believe global warming is happening and is a serious threat to the state. The statewide survey involved telephone interviews with more than 1,000 Alaskan adults, and was conducted early this summer. |
Lamont-Doherty Breaks Ground on New Geochemistry Building (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 10-02-2006 at 09:00:56
| The building will replace the existing geochemistry building, which dates from the early 1950's and can no longer support the kinds of leading-edge research needed to answer the most pressing questions about Earth and its climate. The new building is made possible by an $18 million gift from Gary Comer. |
New 'Poverty Atlas' Shows Where the Poor Live (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 09-29-2006 at 12:00:43
| New maps from The Earth Institute track infant mortality rates, hunger and resource inequality, bringing into stark relief the problems of the world. |
New Study Finds World Temperatures Approaching Ancient Levels (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 09-26-2006 at 09:00:48
| A new study led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a part of The Earth Institute, finds that the world's temperature is reaching a level that has not been seen in thousands of years. |
Earth Institute to Advise New York City on Sustainability, Mayor Announces (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 09-22-2006 at 06:00:54
| As part of a new initiative, The Earth Institute will provide New York City with scientific research and advice on environmental and climate change-related issues. |
Holey Asphalt: New Lamont Parking Lot will Help Reduce Runoff (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 09-20-2006 at 03:00:47
| Rain washing off of a conventional, impervious asphalt surface can carry oil, grit and other unwanted materials into local sewers or surrounding water bodies. But this new parking lot will capture nearly every single drop of water that hits it. |
Profile: World Citizen Finds Academic Home in Columbia Ph.D. Program (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 09-11-2006 at 12:01:14
| "My earliest memories are of living in post-invasion Grenada," said Anisa Khadem Nwachuku, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in sustainable development from Columbia University. |
Profile: World Citizen Finds Academic Home in Columbia Ph.D. Program (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 09-08-2006 at 06:00:33
| "My earliest memories are of living in post-invasion Grenada," said Anise Khadem Nwachuku, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in sustainable development from Columbia University. |
Hurricane Katrina -- Don't Blame Nature (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 08-31-2006 at 03:00:40
| It has been one year since hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans and a sizeable stretch of the Gulf Coast. What made that event a disaster, however, happened well before the storm actually came ashore. |
New Report Assesses Foreign Direct Investment in 82 Countries to 2010 (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 08-31-2006 at 12:00:38
| The volume is due out on September 5 and examines various factors that suggest a new boom in FDI flows, as well as a number of factors that suggest a backlash against FDI may be in the making. |
Marie Tharp, Pioneering Mapmaker of the Ocean Floor, Dies (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 08-24-2006 at 12:01:13
| Marie Tharp, a pathbreaking oceanographic cartographer at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, co-creator of the first global map of the ocean floor and co-discoverer of the central rift valley that runs through the Mid-Atlantic Ridge died Wednesday August 23 in Nyack Hospital. She was 86. |
Learning How the 'Unnatural' Becomes Natural Through Restoration Ecology (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 08-22-2006 at 12:00:46
| Many of New York City's natural respites are not natural at all, making this an ideal place to study restoration ecology. |
Columbia Student Advises Community on How to Cut Greenhouse Gases (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 08-07-2006 at 12:00:39
| Eun Soo Lim, a graduate student in the Climate and Society program, will present an action plan to a Washington city council with practical ways the government and the community at large can cut fuel and electricity consumption. |
Columbia University Receives $16.9 Million for Arsenic Study (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 07-28-2006 at 03:00:38
| The grant will fund ongoing investigations into the health effects and geochemistry of arsenic and manganese exposure, particularly in groundwater of New England and South Asia. |
Cosmic Dust in Ice Cores Sheds Light on Earth's Past Climate (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 07-28-2006 at 03:00:38
| Each year nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. Now, the first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in Antarctic ice has shown that this amount has remained largely constant over the past 30,000 years, a finding that could help refine efforts to understand the timing and effects of changes in the Earth's past climate. |
Stakeholders in Climate Change Conference Address Climate Variability, Risks (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 07-27-2006 at 12:01:04
| As the world continues to experience extreme weather events, including recent heat waves in the United States and Europe as well as drought in Africa and severe monsoons in Asia, the need to better manage climate variability is becoming increasingly urgent. |
Abu Dhabi Energy Company Launches Network to Research Future Energy Technologies (View Original Story)
Source: earthinstitute.columbia.edu Posted: 07-25-2006 at 03:00:33
| The Earth Institute's Vijay Modi recently helped spearhead the formation of the Masdar Research Network to develop alternative technologies for advanced energy and environmental solutions. |
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