Posts
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The Art of Catching a Bobcat
Chopped beaver and chilled urine. Shiny feather boas and smelly mating lures. The extreme lengths to which ecologists must go to catch an elusive animal.
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Ukraine Demonstrates the Problem With Nuclear Power
The technology we depend on needs to be resilient, reliable, and as safe as possible. Nuclear power fails those tests, as the war in this nuclear energy-dependent nation demonstrates.
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Catherine McKenna on Winning the Climate Revolution
The former Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change shares some lessons from her time in office.
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Sailing Around the Bangladesh Coastal Zone
I am back in Bangladesh to explore the distribution of fresh and saline groundwater in the coastal zone, needed for drinking in the dry season.
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Sea Ice That Slowed the Flow of Antarctic Glaciers Abruptly Shatters In Three Days
Since 2011, a mass of sea ice from the Larsen B ice shelf helped stabilize the landward glaciers, but the stopgap rapidly disintegrated in January 2022.
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Summer 2022 Paid Internships with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Applications will be accepted until March 31.
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Water Content Controls the Depth of Magma Storage Under Many Volcanoes, Says Study
Research into volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands and elsewhere overturns the conventional understanding of what controls the depth at which rising magma is stored.
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Food Security Expert Lew Ziska Contributes to Landmark UN Climate Report
Climate change is an ongoing threat to human health and environments—including food and water sources around the world—and the world is running out of time to change course, the report concludes.
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Hurricanes and Other Tropical Cyclones Linked to Rise in U.S. Deaths from Several Major Causes
A landmark study reveals the potential deadly cost of climate-related disasters to injuries, infectious and parasitic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and other disorders.
