Climate76
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Avoiding a Bitter End for Coffee From Climate Change
Students were looking for a link between climate stressors and coffee yield, but instead they found a complicated political relationship.
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Social Cost of Carbon: What Is It, and Why Do We Need to Calculate It?
It can help us weigh the costs and benefits of climate regulations, but nailing down an exact number is difficult.
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How Journalists Can Track Down Great Satellite Images in Realtime
The pandemic has been making on-the-ground photojournalism difficult. Eyes in the sky offer a variety of options, some of them free.
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Tidal Communities Make Their Case for Shaping Resilient Coastal Futures
A recent conversation focused on three coastlines where Indigenous and Black communities are caught between rising seas and societal and development threats on land.
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Combining Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Enhances Fire Management in the Sahel
A less predictable climate is undermining traditional decision-making around controlled burns in the Sahel. Columbia’s ACToday project is forging connections to enhance these communities’ resilience to the changing climate.
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How Climate Change Is Affecting Sea Squirts In Antarctica
As melting glaciers alter ecosystems in and around Antarctica, scientists study how sea squirts react.
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Fossil Plants at Bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet Warn of Future Melting
The discovery of fossil plants below a mile of Greenland ice indicates that the ice sheet completely melted in the past, and suggests it could rapidly do so again.
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The ‘Zealandia Switch’: Missing Link in Big Natural Climate Shifts?
Movements of winds in the Southern Hemisphere may be the key to waxing and waning of ice ages, says a new study.
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Reducing Risk and Avoiding Disaster – Creating Grid 2.0
Experts discussed the challenges and opportunities of upgrading the electric grid during a recent webinar.
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