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  • Cities Lead on Climate Problems, and Solutions

    New Report Analyzes Urban Areas Across the World

  • Earth Institute and Merck Foundation Expand Health Program in Africa’s Millennium Villages

    With $1 million in renewed support from The Merck Company Foundation, the Millennium Villages project will continue to strengthen its Community Health Worker (CHW) program to address gaps in primary health care availability in sub-Saharan Africa. Initial funding of $869,000 from The Merck Company Foundation launched the first phase of the project in 2009 by…

  • Jeffrey Sachs Extends Term as Director of Earth Institute

    The Earth Institute, Columbia University announced that Professor Jeffrey Sachs has agreed to extend his term as its director. Since his tenure began in 2002, Sachs has led the Earth Institute to become a leading scientific authority on sustainable development while simultaneously expanding its reach worldwide. Through his guidance, the Earth Institute and its scientists…

  • Study Links Ozone Hole to Weather Shifts

    Depletion Said to Increase Rainfall in Subtropics

  • 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

  • Cities Lead on Climate Problems, and Solutions

    New Report Analyzes Urban Areas Across the World

  • Earth Institute and Merck Foundation Expand Health Program in Africa’s Millennium Villages

    With $1 million in renewed support from The Merck Company Foundation, the Millennium Villages project will continue to strengthen its Community Health Worker (CHW) program to address gaps in primary health care availability in sub-Saharan Africa. Initial funding of $869,000 from The Merck Company Foundation launched the first phase of the project in 2009 by…

  • Jeffrey Sachs Extends Term as Director of Earth Institute

    The Earth Institute, Columbia University announced that Professor Jeffrey Sachs has agreed to extend his term as its director. Since his tenure began in 2002, Sachs has led the Earth Institute to become a leading scientific authority on sustainable development while simultaneously expanding its reach worldwide. Through his guidance, the Earth Institute and its scientists…

  • Study Links Ozone Hole to Weather Shifts

    Depletion Said to Increase Rainfall in Subtropics

  • 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