Posted by Editor | Nov 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Michael Studinger, Instrument Co-Principal Investigator, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory:
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile–The weather forecast for our survey over the Larsen C Ice Shelf looks good. Given the difficult weather over the past couple of days this is a welcome change. After studying satellite images and computer models and talking to the meteorologist at the Punta Arenas airport [...]
Posted by Editor | Oct 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nick Frearson, Gravimeter Instrument Team, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory:
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile–Skimming across the Weddell Sea at 250 miles per hour I am finally on the way to Antarctica. Even though my visit to the white continent will be at a height of 1500 ft I still feel a sense of ‘homecoming’, as if I am back [...]
Posted by Kim Martineau | Sep 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
Bärbel Hönisch, an expert on ocean acidification at Columbia, will speak after a screening of the film “A Sea Change” this Thursday.
Posted by Kyu Lee | Sep 14, 2009 | 1 Comments
Tomorrow, Sept. 14 at 10am (EST), Jeff Sachs is participating in a webcast on “Globalization in the Era of Environmental Crisis.” The discussion is part of the Raul Prebisch lecture series and organized by the UN Commission on Trade and Development. Should be very interesting considering the current financial crisis and as a run-up to [...]
Posted by Kim Martineau | Jun 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
A power plant in Iceland is set to become the first in the world to try turning carbon dioxide emissions into solid minerals underground, starting this September.
Posted by Kevin Krajick | May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
Too little water for too many people is a growing problem in poor countries–and in thriving suburban Rockland County, N.Y., just north of New York City. A new website, Water Resources in Rockland County, lays out the case, and neatly puts it into global context. The site is run by the Earth Institute’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network [...]
Posted by Kim Martineau | May 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
Even on a sunny day, nearly 13 million gallons of water are pumped from New York City subways. As global warming brings rising sea levels and stormier weather, more flooding is expected for New York’s transit system.
To adapt, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority needs to develop a master plan that lays out the costs of upgrading [...]
Posted by Kevin Krajick | Apr 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
A new book, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, serves as an excellent, long-needed primer on the workings of earth’s climate. Authored by Edmond A. Mathez, curator of a major exhibit on climate change at the American Museum of Natural History, it is clearly aimed at college students–but is clearly also just one of [...]
Posted by Kevin Krajick | Apr 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
Scientists warn that many cities around the world may soon face big climate-change challenges: rising seas; shrinking water supplies; killer summer heat waves; rises in water-borne diseases as temperatures go up and sewers are swamped. No one is predicting that, say, London or Miami will simply drop beneath the waves–but these and other cities will probably have to be redesigned if [...]
Posted by Steve Cohen | Apr 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
Recently, Congressmen Henry A. Waxman and Edward J. Markey released a draft of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. And so the great climate and energy debate will finally begin for real. I have been studying environmental policy development for over three decades and just as we saw the start of policy [...]
