Author: Columbia Climate School37
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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…
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New Partnership Aims to Improve Maternal Health in Africa
Community Empowerment Through Needed Supplies, Education, Family Planning to be Main Focus of Work
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Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall
Defying Models, Particles Make Some Regions Drier, Others Wetter
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$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…
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Study Adds New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended
New Zealand Glaciers Melted as European Glaciers Briefly Expanded
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Earth Institute Receives $1 million from MacArthur Foundation for Sexual and Reproductive Health Initiative
NEW YORK, September 1 – The Earth Institute, Columbia University is pleased to announce a $1 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to help improve the health of mothers and children in poor, rural communities within the Millennium Villages project (MVP). These funds will support activities to increase access to…
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Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter’s Huge Snows
A Warming World Can Still See Severe Storms
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New Initiative to Fast-Track Development in Dry Areas of East Africa
Ministers from six countries in the region endorse project targeting pastoralist communities