Author: Columbia Climate School34
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Daniel Hillel, Pioneer in High-Efficiency Irrigation, to Receive World Food Prize
A Career in 30 Nations, From the 1950s to Today
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New Grants to Extend Reach of Africa’s Green Revolution
Earth Institute Projects to Help Farmers Boost Food Production
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Experiments May Understate Plant Responses to Climate
Observations in Nature Outrun Those in Artificial Plots
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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…
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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…
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New Study Lowers Estimate of Ancient Sea-Level Rise
But Projections for Increase Today Still Loom Large
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Ocean Acidification Rate May Be Unprecedented, Study Says
Few Parallels in 300-Million Year Geologic Record
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Cuts in Non-CO2 Pollutants May Slow Climate Change
Reducing Soot and Methane Would Bring Fast Results, Says Study
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Researchers Unravel Origins of Antarctica’s Ice-Covered Mountains
‘This work shows that very old mountains can rise again, like a Phoenix from the ashes’