Author: Columbia Climate School36

Some Antarctic Ice Is Forming From Bottom

Imagery From Remote Mountains Turns Normal Theory on Head
Production Starts on Sustainable Bamboo Bikes in Ghana

KUMASI, Ghana, January 18, 2011–The Bamboo Bike Project (BBP) and the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, along with Ghana-based Bamboo Bikes Limited (BBL) have launched a two week long bamboo bike training program to begin production of 750 bikes for a test run in Kumasi, Ghana. The training program will…
John Oliver, a Father of Plate Tectonics, Dies

Dr. John Ertle “Jack” Oliver, a geophysicist with roots at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory whose research helped revolutionize our understanding of the basic forces shaping the planet, died of cancer at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. He was 87. Together with fellow Lamonters Bryan Isacks and Lynn Sykes, he wrote a…
New Initiative Launched to Help Manage Oil in Timor-Leste

The Open Society Foundations have awarded $800,000 to the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment to promote integrated development in Timor-Leste in collaboration with the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI). Though rich in oil and gas, the island nation of Timor-Leste remains one of the least developed countries in the world. To use its revenues…
New Partnership Aims to Improve Maternal Health in Africa

Community Empowerment Through Needed Supplies, Education, Family Planning to be Main Focus of Work
Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall

Defying Models, Particles Make Some Regions Drier, Others Wetter
$3.8 Million Raised for Millennium Cities Initiative

The Earth Institute successfully completed a $1.9 million landmark challenge grant, awarded by the Tides Foundation, to benefit the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI). Because of the Tides challenge and our generous donors, a total of $3.8 million has been raised to support the project’s work to help targeted mid-sized cities across sub-Saharan Africa promote sustainable…
New Private Funds to Support Millennium Development Goals

Today, two of the world’s leading companies announce grants and technical support totaling more than $1,000,000 aimed at ending global poverty by 2015. Nestlé and the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development each pledged support for the Earth Institute’s work through the Millennium Villages project (MVP) as world leaders gather at the Millennium Development Goals summit…
Study Adds New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended

New Zealand Glaciers Melted as European Glaciers Briefly Expanded

Some Antarctic Ice Is Forming From Bottom

Imagery From Remote Mountains Turns Normal Theory on Head
Production Starts on Sustainable Bamboo Bikes in Ghana

KUMASI, Ghana, January 18, 2011–The Bamboo Bike Project (BBP) and the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, along with Ghana-based Bamboo Bikes Limited (BBL) have launched a two week long bamboo bike training program to begin production of 750 bikes for a test run in Kumasi, Ghana. The training program will…
John Oliver, a Father of Plate Tectonics, Dies

Dr. John Ertle “Jack” Oliver, a geophysicist with roots at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory whose research helped revolutionize our understanding of the basic forces shaping the planet, died of cancer at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. He was 87. Together with fellow Lamonters Bryan Isacks and Lynn Sykes, he wrote a…
New Initiative Launched to Help Manage Oil in Timor-Leste

The Open Society Foundations have awarded $800,000 to the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment to promote integrated development in Timor-Leste in collaboration with the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI). Though rich in oil and gas, the island nation of Timor-Leste remains one of the least developed countries in the world. To use its revenues…
New Partnership Aims to Improve Maternal Health in Africa

Community Empowerment Through Needed Supplies, Education, Family Planning to be Main Focus of Work
Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall

Defying Models, Particles Make Some Regions Drier, Others Wetter
$3.8 Million Raised for Millennium Cities Initiative

The Earth Institute successfully completed a $1.9 million landmark challenge grant, awarded by the Tides Foundation, to benefit the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI). Because of the Tides challenge and our generous donors, a total of $3.8 million has been raised to support the project’s work to help targeted mid-sized cities across sub-Saharan Africa promote sustainable…
New Private Funds to Support Millennium Development Goals

Today, two of the world’s leading companies announce grants and technical support totaling more than $1,000,000 aimed at ending global poverty by 2015. Nestlé and the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development each pledged support for the Earth Institute’s work through the Millennium Villages project (MVP) as world leaders gather at the Millennium Development Goals summit…
Study Adds New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended

New Zealand Glaciers Melted as European Glaciers Briefly Expanded