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A Polar Climate Ambassador Visits an Arctic Museum in Maine – State of the Planet
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (549+ words) A Polar Climate Ambassador Visits an Arctic Museum in Maine State of the Planet Josie Brooks outside the Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies I found myself captivated by the Arctic, along with the native people and their customs Recently, I…...
Climate Finance Student Guy Ningabo Believes Better Impact Finance Can Transform Renewable Energy in Africa
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (544+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Guy Ningabo was born and raised in Burundi, East Africa, one of the poorest nations in the world, during a civil war that lasted over a decade (from 1993 to 2005). The country entered a political…...
Long-Term Study Suggests Landfill Methane Emissions Are Far Higher Than Estimates
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (474+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School “If you take all of the evidence, it’s pretty clear that the EPA estimates are too low,” says Andrew Hallward-Driemeier, a researcher at Lamont and a PhD candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences and…...
Better Data, Better Maps: Supporting Ebola Response in Eastern Congo
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (314+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School An effective Ebola response depends on knowing not only where cases are being reported, but also where people live, where health facilities are located and which health areas are responsible for reaching them. The…...
Puerto Rico’s Energy Future: Is Gas the Only Option?
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (315+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Andrea M. Falche Dominicci These initiatives are not the only ones being studied on the island. The Abruña Energy Initiative at Cornell University has also proposed a green hydrogen pilot project as a potential way…...
The Irreversible Global Impacts of Earth’s Lost Frozen Regions
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (603+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School As United Nations climate talks began on June 8 in Bonn, Germany, government representatives met with scientists to examine a question that is rapidly moving from theory to political reality: What happens to the world’s…...
Faculty Spotlight: Decoding the Arctic Ocean’s Chemical Clues
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (466+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School This story originally appeared in Columbia News. What does your work focus on? I study metals in the ocean—things like iron, zinc, copper, manganese, nickel, cobalt, cadmium, and lead. Just like we need…...
In Eastern Africa, the Cradle of Humankind Is Tearing Apart
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (426+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School The findings were published in Nature Communications. Not every rifting episode ends in continental breakup. The Turkana Rift, however, appears destined for that fate. “We found that rifting in this zone is more advanced,…...
Indigenous Herders and Peru’s Melting Glaciers: A Conversation with Anthropologist Allison Caine
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (548+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Allison Caine realized she wanted to study anthropology when a professor told her the field was about listening to people’s stories. Her recent book, “Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Sociological Futures in the Peruvian…...
Climate Finance Has Failed Africa Twice Over. Here’s How To Fix It.
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (969+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School This article was originally published in The Conversation. The effects of climate change are no longer a future risk for Africa. They are a present crisis. Floods are destroying infrastructure that took decades to…...