Food Systems Offer Huge Opportunities to Cut Emissions, Study Finds
Researchers drilling into the many moving parts of food systems say that greenhouse-gas emissions have been systematically underestimated.
View ArticleLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Milestones in Climate Science
Much of the modern understanding of climate change is underpinned by pioneering studies done at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Here's a timeline of significant studies.
View ArticleInsurance Tools for Climate Adaptation: Q&A with Rahel Diro
Diro is an expert on index-based insurance, a proven way to help farmers cover some of the financial losses caused by drought and other weather extremes that damage their crops.
View ArticleRaising Ambitions for Food Systems and Climate Change
The Food Climate Partnership is hosting an event on Tuesday, September 21 during New York City’s Climate Week 2021: Raising Ambitions for Food Systems and Climate Change by Uniting Science and Policy.
View ArticleClimate & Water in a Changing Africa: Uncertainty, Adaptation & the Social...
A special issue for the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences examines water (in)security in Africa in an age of global climate change.
View ArticleAt UN Food Systems Summit, Did Business Show It Is Serious About Addressing...
While pledges were made, they did not meet the moment.
View ArticleIn New Project, Millions of Farmers Will Help to Improve Insurance Against...
Until now, most index insurance did not have the capacity to tap the wisdom of crowds of farmers themselves.
View ArticleLisa Goddard: Led Global Efforts to Advance Near-Term Climate Forecasting
Lisa Goddard, longtime director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, has died.
View ArticleSimultaneous Droughts Could Threaten Global Food Security, Says Study
In a world where many countries depend on agricultural imports, warming climate increases the odds that multiple important crops could fail.
View ArticleTaking My Class to Bangladesh
My undergraduate Sustainable Development course is in Bangladesh for a Spring Break trip to see what they have been learning about. We will be touring the country by bus and boat to learn about the...
View ArticleAcross the Ganges to Southwest Bangladesh and the Sundarbans
Our group of 23 American and Bangladeshi students and professors traveled from the Jamuna River to the Ganges and Gorai Rivers, and then down to an island on the edge of the Sundarbans, the world's...
View ArticleExploring the Sundarbans and Back to Dhaka
Our group of 24 Americans and Bangladeshis continued to explore the Sundarbans mangrove forest, rice farming in embanked low-lying islands, and heritage sites of Bangladesh.
View ArticleLand Subsidence in the Netherlands
At a symposium on land subsidence, I learned about how the Dutch transformed their country so that about a quarter of it is below sea level and how they cope with it.
View ArticleIn Many Major Crop Regions, Workers Plant and Harvest in Spiraling Heat and...
The ability of farmworkers to cultivate major crops including rice and maize may be compromised if climate trends continue.
View ArticleRising Wheat Prices and Unprecedented Demonstrations: Pakistani Protestors...
Since January, thousands of protestors in Gilgit-Baltistan, a glaciated region of northern Pakistan, have been demanding a restoration of a recently revoked wheat subsidy in a push for political...
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