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Indian Government Takes Steps on Agriculture, Water, Climate
In terms of the urgent need to reform agriculture, address climate change and promote sustainable watershed development, the Indian government's new budget provides for a number of promising initiatives.
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Sailing Around Political Unrest in Bangladesh
With the roads in Bangladesh hazardous to drive because of the ongoing political unrest, our undergraduate sustainable development class managed to proceed with our class trip over Spring Break by...
View ArticleThe Growing Groundwater Crisis
Groundwater is being depleted at alarming rates, not only in drought-stricken California, but around the world. When groundwater is depleted, it can take tens to hundreds of years to for it to...
View ArticleHow Bad Will this El Niño Be? Worse Than You May Think
Today’s El Niño is unfolding over a world that is in many ways more vulnerable than the world of 1997-1998. Just as today’s climate continues to generate extremes without historical precedent, we are...
View ArticleThe Changing Climate of Security
In the November Democratic presidential primary debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said that the greatest threat to national security was climate change. But is there actually a link between national security...
View ArticleHow Sustainable is Vertical Farming? Students Try to Answer the Question
Vertical farming is touted as a solution to the drawbacks of traditional agriculture, but how sustainable is it really? A team of students attempts to design a certification system to assess the...
View ArticleFilling a Climate Gap and Helping Rwandan Farmers
Agriculture makes up a major portion of Rwanda’s economy, and employs eight in 10 Rwandans. Of course, farmers are hugely dependent on the climate, and a new project hopes to ensure they get timely...
View ArticlePreparing for Climate-Related Food Shocks
Researchers are investigating if the projected increase in climate change-generated droughts, floods, heat waves and other intense short-term occurrences will result in increased shocks that could...
View Article4th International Sustainable Development Conference Coming up
The world is working on sustainable development. And many of the new ideas and innovations being applied to fields from agriculture and food security to climate adaptation to socially inclusive...
View ArticleClimate Week: Why Does It Matter?
Climate Week NYC 2016, Sept. 19 to 35, features over 70 events bringing together business, societal and government leaders to share ideas, technologies, resources and success stories that are helping...
View ArticleBack to Bangladesh to Date Earthquakes and More
I'm back in Bangladesh with a small team after a year and a half away. One different is a police escort as a result of the attacks last year. We start by successfully sampling river sediments to...
View ArticleSide Trip to Hiron Point, Sundarbans
After helping Chris an Dan with soil salinity and reflectance measurement, Humayun, Liz and I moved onto the smaller M.B. Mewl to sail through the Sundarban Mangrove Forest to service our GPS station...
View ArticleIn a Warmer World, Expect the Wet to Get Wetter, and the Dry, Drier
As the world warms due to human-induced climate change, many scientists have been projecting that global rainfall patterns will shift. In the latest such study, two leading researchers map out how...
View ArticleWarming Climate Could Abruptly Increase Rain in Africa’s Sahel
Climate change could turn one of Africa’s driest regions wet, according to a new study. Scientists have found evidence in computer simulations for a possible abrupt change in the Sahel, a region long...
View ArticleWhat the Vikings Can Teach Us About Adapting to Climate Change
The rise of the Vikings was not a sudden event, but part of a long continuum of human development in the harsh conditions of northern Scandinavia. How did the Vikings make a living over the long term,...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Climate Change, Sea Level and the Vikings
A thousand years ago, powerful Viking chieftans flourished in Norway’s Lofoten Islands, above the Arctic Circle. In an environment frequently hovering on the edge of survivability, small shifts in...
View ArticleIn Biblical Land, Searching for Droughts Past and Future
Human-influenced climate warming has already reduced rainfall and increased evaporation in the Mideast, worsening water shortages. Up to now, climate scientists had projected that rainfall could...
View ArticleNational Climate Report: Q&A With Authors
Every four years Congress is provided with a state-of-the-art report on the impacts of climate change on the United States. The next National Climate Assessment is scheduled for 2018, but its...
View ArticleAmerican Geophysical Union 2017: Key Events From the Earth Institute
A chronological guide to key talks and other events presented by Columbia University’s Earth Institute at the American Geophysical Union 2017 meeting. The post American Geophysical Union 2017: Key...
View ArticleHotter Temperatures Will Accelerate Migration of Asylum-Seekers to Europe,...
If carbon emissions hold steady, a new study in Science predicts that the European Union could face a massive influx by 2100. The post Hotter Temperatures Will Accelerate Migration of Asylum-Seekers to...
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