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Climate News Roundup: Week of 3/06
NASA Reels From Climate Science Setbacks, AFP, Mar. 6 NASA’s $424 million Glory satellite, meant to monitor aerosols and solar radiation, crashed into the Pacific last week. Climate scientists were relying on the satellite data to fill critical information gaps. The accident comes at an inopportune time, as Congress is in the process of determining…
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A Community-based Approach to Combating Malnutrition: What It Looks Like and How to Evaluate It
In a world of increasing rates of obesity, it is sometimes hard to remember that another type of malnutrition—undernutrition—remains a major contributor to mortality. Although all ages may be affected by malnutrition, children are most vulnerable to death and long-term disabilities caused by this disease. As such, treating and preventing undernutrition in children contribute to…
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Millennium City and U.S. Students Chat and Read Aloud Online, Celebrating World Read Aloud Day
Words – and worlds – were shared in celebration of the second annual World Read Aloud Day, organized by LitWorld, on March 9, 2011. As part of LitWorld’s much larger celebration of reading, literacy and learning, students from across the Millennium Cities connected with students in the United States via Skype, to share stories and…
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Microsoft and the Earth Institute Launch Rural Technology Lab in Mali
By Matt Berg, ICT Director, Millennium Villages Project To demonstrate the critical role technology can play in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty, the Earth Institute, Columbia University has partnered with Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Community Technology Skills program to establish a computer programmer training center at the Millennium Villages project (MVP) office…
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Changing Litterbugs One Wave at a Time
As the mid-Pacific trash island grows, forces are at work to change people’s minds about how they may be adding to it.
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Finally getting it right
We are driving back to Khulna at 10:30 after our third excellent day in a row. However, there were still a lot of hiccups along the way. Yesterday, we were set to install the deep well, but when we arrived they were just starting to pull the pipe from the deep well. We had hoped…
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Lend me a Helping Trunk
Researchers at the University of Cambridge recently found that elephants understand and can display complex levels of cooperation to reach a common goal.
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Conservation in Alaska: If It Sounds Familiar…
It occurred to me while reading noted historian Douglas Brinkley’s new book The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 1879-1960 that some things don’t seem to change. Brinkley’s book chronicles the efforts of the Federal government to save wild Alaska from the extraction industries, mining, timber and fisheries primarily. The notion over one hundred years…
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South Korean Delegates Visit Earth Institute, Look at Collaborative Efforts in Global Health
On February 18, 2011, the Earth Institute hosted about 20 South Korean delegates for a presentation given by the health team at the Center for Global Health and Economic Development. Their trip was an extension of their participation in a Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course that was developed through a joint effort of…
