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Fall 2017 Earth Institute Internship Opportunities
The Earth Institute is offering undergraduate, graduate and PhD students with opportunities to intern in various departments and research centers in a variety of administration, communications and research roles. Interns work on a variety of sustainability-focused projects across The Earth Institute. These projects provide interns with hands-on workplace experience, allowing them to grow professionally while…
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The Myth That Regulations Kill Jobs
In a real world of complex new technologies, crowded cities, multiple interests, and exponential information growth, we need regulations.
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Can Collaboration on Environmental Issues Contribute to Peacebuilding in the Middle East?
This August, students from Columbia University and Tel Aviv University will travel through the Middle East to learn about the environmental challenges facing communities in Jordan and Israel.
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Tackling Sleeping Sickness in Maasai Communities
A powerful new tool helps rural Tanzanians reduce their exposure to tsetse flies and the deadly disease they carry.
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New Model Helps in Fight Against Deadly Parasitic Disease
IRI scientists and colleagues from South Africa are using satellites to detect seasonal water bodies that harbor schistosomiasis, the deadliest of the tropical neglected diseases.
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New Images From Under Alaska Seafloor Suggest High Tsunami Danger
Scientists probing under the seafloor off Alaska have mapped a geologic structure that they say signals potential for a major tsunami in an area that normally would be considered benign.
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Tesla’s Model 3 and the Transition to Sustainability
In the United States we need to build more and better mass transit options, but due to our land use development pattern in most of the country, personal transportation will always be part of our mix. The growth of the electric vehicle market provides an example of how the transition to a renewable resource based…
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Faculty Profile: Michael Puma, Professor of Hydrology
Dr. Michael Puma, a Climate and Life Fellow at Columbia University and the Director of the Center for Climate Systems Research at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, teaches hydrology in the summer semester for the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy Program.
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Staying Hopeful in A Troubling Time
The recent birth of my first grandchild reinforces my desire to believe that the world that she will inherit will be at least as good as my world, if not better. I am trusting her future to the sustainability leaders and professionals that have emerged during the first part of the 21st century.
