You might ask yourself what plastic bags have to do with climate change. Sofia Martinez explored the connection and worked with the Human Impacts Institute to see if there’s support for a plastic bag ban in New York.
Ministries of agriculture generally want to estimate crop yield to plan for food security and crop exports. Ever wonder how it’s estimated?
C+Ser Caitlin Reid spent the winter working with staff at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and NASA on a climate and health project. That work sparked an interest and led her to continue on the path with IRI and NASA through the summer.
As it seeks to reconcile rapid economic growth with a desire to combat climate change, China is emerging as a leader in the development of carbon capture, utilization and storage, a promising GHG mitigation technology that will slow down the global warming trend.
By Elisabeth Gawthrop, Climate and Society ’13 For many of us, dust is just an annoyance. It’s the coating that accumulates on our picture frames, and, for some, it may trigger unwelcome allergies. Dust is increasingly garnering interest, however, in the scientific community, including the role it plays in the climate system. And for many in… read more
“For me finance is no longer associated with wearing suits and reading the Wall Street Journal.” I am glad my classmate Ricarda Dahlheimer cleared that up for all of us in her post earlier this summer and made the task of describing my summer internship a great deal easier. Since I started my internship at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in early June, I have enjoyed the comfort of light summer dresses and not once read the Wall Street Journal. And yet, I work on climate finance.
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) is a major international effort linking climate science, agriculture and economics to improve model predictions of global agricultural production and world food security under the conditions of a changing climate.
In Eastern Sudan, where cracking soils and Acacia-Balanites woodlands dot the landscape, there roams a ferocious little female bug whose bite packs a serious punch. The female sand fly, of the genus Phlebotomus, has a terrifying and death delivering parasitic unicellular organism residing within it, Leishmania donovani, responsible for the disease, Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), affecting people worldwide.
Despite considerable advances in climate modeling, projections can never be certain, but they get the job done anyway.
Meningitis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria Neisseria Meningitides and is transmitted between humans through respiratory droplets or throat secretions. Existing research has confirmed the tie between environmental factors and the transmission risk of meningitis. Such factors include but are not limited to humidity, temperature and wind speed. With infectious diseases being one of the three most challenging climate sensitive health issues, the central question that the environmental science and the health communities both struggle to answer is: how to integrate climate information into public health decision making process?