Climate and Agriculture4
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From Sonatola to the Sundarbans
By working a 16-hour day, we managed to get both GPS and SETs completed at our first field site. We then sailed into the Sundarban Mangrove Forest, the world’s largest, to visit an existing site and make measurements.
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Delays in Dhaka
I am back in Bangladesh for a new project examining the balance between sea level rise, land subsidence and sedimentation. We will be installing, repairing or upgrading equipment to measure changes to the landscape.
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How Climate Change Impacts the Economy
Warming temperatures, rising seas, and more extreme weather are going to cost us. But they’ll create new business opportunities, too.
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Scientists See Fingerprint of Warming Climate on Droughts Going Back to 1900
In an unusual new study, scientists say they have detected a growing fingerprint of human-driven global warming on global drought conditions starting as far back as 1900.
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Drought: A Wide-Angle Picture
A new book, the second in a series of primers with the Earth Institute imprint, provides an interdisciplinary overview drought, bringing together many fields including climate science, hydrology and ecology.
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National Climate Assessment: Will U.S. Water Problems Worsen?
Upmanu Lall is director of the Columbia Water Center, and the lead author of the new U.S. National Climate Assessment’s chapter on water resources. The report paints a dire picture of the nation’s climate future. We spoke with Lall about the outlook for water supplies, quality and infrastructure.
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The Intersection of Climate Science and Hope: A Personal Story
A man from Mali explains why he spent his summer working with Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network.
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How Climate Change Will Alter Our Food
As the world population continues to grow, global demand for food could increase dramatically by 2050. Yet the impacts of climate change threaten to decrease the quantity and quality of our food supplies.
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The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting
Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farming and other pursuits could be huge.
