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	<title>State of the Planet</title>
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	<description>Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better.</description>
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		<title>Lucky Thirteen Gets Us 250,000 Years of Sediment</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/19/lucky-thirteen-gets-us-250000-years-of-sediment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 02:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratigya Polissar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future El Nino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Line Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleoceanography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R/V Marcus G. Langseth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have been steaming and searching for locations on the seafloor where the sediments are accumulating undisturbed. We tried without luck to take cores at several promising locations, however the cores came up less than perfect.  On our thirteenth core attempt of the cruise we got lucky.]]></description>
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		<title>New Grants to Extend Reach of Africa’s Green Revolution</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/18/new-grants-to-extend-reach-of-africa%e2%80%99s-green-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Funkhouser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donor and Partner News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty / Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donor Partner News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two new programs in Ethiopia and Tanzania will adapt modern technology such as an innovative “lab-in-a-box,” smartphones and web-based communications, along with training for agricultural extension workers, to broaden the reach of Africa's “Green Revolution.”]]></description>
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		<title>Student Research Showcase 2012</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/18/student-research-showcase-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/18/student-research-showcase-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Crespo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Earth Institute, Columbia University was proud to support student research in the areas of environment and sustainable development at the annual Student Research Showcase on April 27, 2012. Student interns, research assistants and travel grant recipients, and their Faculty and Research Advisors, were honored for their research contributions that ranged in topics from biodiversity, [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/18/student-research-showcase-2012/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Profile on TA for Ecosystem Experiences in Jordan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/18/profile-on-ta-for-ecosystem-experiences-in-jordan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/18/profile-on-ta-for-ecosystem-experiences-in-jordan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Kateman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecosystems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco matters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As students pack and prepare for, and ponder the exciting adventures that lie ahead in, the 2012 Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates Program (SEE-U), Natalia Rossi, the Teaching Assistant for the Jordan field site, shares her enthusiasm for research, education, and conservation.]]></description>
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		<title>Rock Fall Shakes New Jersey Palisades</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/16/rock-fall-shakes-new-jersey-palisades/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/16/rock-fall-shakes-new-jersey-palisades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Martineau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earth Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudson River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palisades Sill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 500-foot rock face came crashing down from the Palisades cliffs along the Hudson River in Alpine, N.J. on Saturday night, shaking the ground for more than half a minute and dumping a fresh layer of boulders over a 100-yard strip of parkland below State Line Lookout. The shaking was strong enough to be registered by a seismic station a mile and a half away, at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, but no one was injured.]]></description>
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		<title>A Rare Treat &#8211; The Green Flash</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/15/a-rare-treat-the-green-flash/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/15/a-rare-treat-the-green-flash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future El Nino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Line Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R/V Marcus G. Langseth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday night after successfully recovering a gravity core about 42 miles north of the equator, conditions were right for a rare treat – the green flash.]]></description>
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		<title>Masters Student Connects to Sustainability Network In and Out of the Classroom</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/15/masters-student-connects-to-sustainability-network-in-and-out-of-the-classroom/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/15/masters-student-connects-to-sustainability-network-in-and-out-of-the-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyssa Dubov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MS in Sustainability Management News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Having a degree in the field of sustainability legitimizes my career path and helps me to better understand the variety of people I work with on new initiatives at Verizon.” Nicole deFuria chose the MS in Sustainability Management Program as a way to complement her professional work as a member of Verizon’s Corporate Sustainability Team.]]></description>
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		<title>What’s a tree like you doing in a place like this? Or West meets East</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/15/what%e2%80%99s-a-tree-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-west-meets-east/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/15/what%e2%80%99s-a-tree-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-west-meets-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecosystems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediterranean vegetation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Broadleaf Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tree Ring Lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tree rings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umbrella Pine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the northeastern part of Turkey, the highest Pontic Mountains meet the Black Sea. Here altitude drops from more than 3900m to sea level in a less than 30 miles. Both the orographic effect of mountains and the lake effect (well, better sea effect) cause very high precipitation allowing for rich and productive temperate forest to grow.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wash your hands!&#8221; and Other Advice for Undergraduate Students from Columbia Graduate Students</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/14/wash-your-hands-and-other-advice-for-undergraduate-students-from-columbia-graduate-students/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/14/wash-your-hands-and-other-advice-for-undergraduate-students-from-columbia-graduate-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[department of earth and environmental sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[department of earth and evironmental engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mailman School of Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SIPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undergraduate program in sustainable development news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ph.D. students delving deep into some of the world’s complex sustainability issues offered advice to current undergraduates interested in pursuing their own research questions.]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism Student Completes Thesis on Texas Drought and Wildfire</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/14/journalism-student-completes-thesis-on-texas-drought-and-wildfire/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/14/journalism-student-completes-thesis-on-texas-drought-and-wildfire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture-Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecosystems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Kaci Fowler &#8220;Environmental politics is a part of who I am,&#8221; said Robert Eshelman, an aspiring journalist in Columbia&#8217;s Graduate School of Journalism. Robert used an Earth Institute travel grant to learn and write about sustainability in his senior thesis. &#8220;I am telling stories that will have a true impact on the environment.&#8221; Robert [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/14/journalism-student-completes-thesis-on-texas-drought-and-wildfire/">...</a>]]]></description>
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