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Joanna Rubinstein Named Assistant Director for International Programs

Dr. Joanna Rubinstein has been appointed today to the position of assistant director of the Earth Institute for international programs. Rubinstein will help to lead the Earth Institute’s international programs for sustainable development, with a key role in coordinating the Earth Institute’s new role as Secretariat of the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network, an initiative…
Tuberculosis, Diabetes Link Strong Enough To Consider Treating Diseases In Tandem

Researchers say cost and effectiveness need to be studied
Pulling CO₂ From Air Vital To Curb Global Warming, Say Researchers

But Lower-Cost Technology a Stumbling Block So Far
Daniel Hillel, Pioneer in High-Efficiency Irrigation, to Receive World Food Prize

A Career in 30 Nations, From the 1950s to Today
New Grants to Extend Reach of Africa’s Green Revolution

Earth Institute Projects to Help Farmers Boost Food Production
Experiments May Understate Plant Responses to Climate

Observations in Nature Outrun Those in Artificial Plots
Top Planetary Scientist to Lead Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Provost John H. Coatsworth have named Sean C. Solomon, a leading geophysicist whose research has combined studies of the deep earth with missions to the moon and the solar system’s inner planets, to be director of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Solomon, a research scientist and director emeritus at…
First World Happiness Report Launched at the United Nations

The happiest countries in the world are all in Northern Europe (Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands). Their average life evaluation score is 7.6 on a 0-to-10 scale. The least happy countries are all poor countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Togo, Benin, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone) with average life evaluation scores of 3.4. But it is not…
New Study Lowers Estimate of Ancient Sea-Level Rise

But Projections for Increase Today Still Loom Large

Joanna Rubinstein Named Assistant Director for International Programs

Dr. Joanna Rubinstein has been appointed today to the position of assistant director of the Earth Institute for international programs. Rubinstein will help to lead the Earth Institute’s international programs for sustainable development, with a key role in coordinating the Earth Institute’s new role as Secretariat of the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network, an initiative…
Tuberculosis, Diabetes Link Strong Enough To Consider Treating Diseases In Tandem

Researchers say cost and effectiveness need to be studied
Pulling CO₂ From Air Vital To Curb Global Warming, Say Researchers

But Lower-Cost Technology a Stumbling Block So Far
Daniel Hillel, Pioneer in High-Efficiency Irrigation, to Receive World Food Prize

A Career in 30 Nations, From the 1950s to Today
New Grants to Extend Reach of Africa’s Green Revolution

Earth Institute Projects to Help Farmers Boost Food Production
Experiments May Understate Plant Responses to Climate

Observations in Nature Outrun Those in Artificial Plots
Top Planetary Scientist to Lead Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Provost John H. Coatsworth have named Sean C. Solomon, a leading geophysicist whose research has combined studies of the deep earth with missions to the moon and the solar system’s inner planets, to be director of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Solomon, a research scientist and director emeritus at…
First World Happiness Report Launched at the United Nations

The happiest countries in the world are all in Northern Europe (Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands). Their average life evaluation score is 7.6 on a 0-to-10 scale. The least happy countries are all poor countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Togo, Benin, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone) with average life evaluation scores of 3.4. But it is not…
New Study Lowers Estimate of Ancient Sea-Level Rise

But Projections for Increase Today Still Loom Large