Lately a lot of people are wondering just how helpful the 100-year flood benchmark really is, as places seem to be getting hit by 100-year floods all the time.
Depletion Said to Increase Rainfall in Subtropics
The researchers found the diagramming helped students form “knowledge networks” that led them to a better understanding of the material.
Louisiana’s wetlands — the largest system in the United States — are shrinking at an alarming rate.
The Earth Institute and School of Continuing Education at Columbia University invite you to learn more about the Master of Science in Sustainability Management before the May 1 deadline for Fall 2011 admission. Watch the faculty and students share their experiences: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/watch/302 All organizations, whether they are multinational corporations or local nonprofits, face a growing…
We first reported about the project by a group of Puerto Rican high school students, Project H2O (Help to Others), and the documentary film about the project being made by the parents of one of the students, in August 2010. The students are continuing to develop Project H2O in their school, in an educational phase…
Earth Week 2011 (April 17-23) here at Columbia University we will focus on the area of environmental impact. Following the lead of the No Impact Project, this year’s celebration will be themed: “NO IMPACT WEEK 2011.”
Fewer penguins survive warming Antarctic climate, Reuters, Apr. 11 A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that in Antarctica, only 10 percent of juvenile chinstrap and Adelies penguins now survive the first independent trip they take from their winter habitat back to their colonies, know as the penguin’s “transition…
We’ve launched the second of five Model Districts: in a state big enough to be the 5th largest country in the world.