http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/12/climate-effects-on-nyc-may-move-faster-than-previously-forecast/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/12/climate-effects-on-nyc-may-move-faster-than-previously-forecast/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:30:52 +0000 Lakis Polycarpou http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=37335 The impact of climate change on New York City could be even more severe than previously thought, putting more people at risk from increasingly frequent floods and heat waves, according to a report by the New York City Panel on Climate Change that was released Monday.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/06/12/climate-effects-on-nyc-may-move-faster-than-previously-forecast/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/22/the-boom-of-hydraulic-fracturing/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/22/the-boom-of-hydraulic-fracturing/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:19 +0000 Cassie Xu http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36913 Experts discuss the rise and boom of unconventional hydrocarbon extraction in the final Sustainable Development Seminar Series of the 2012-2013 academic year.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/22/the-boom-of-hydraulic-fracturing/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/iri-to-develop-climate-adaptation-tools-to-help-farmers-in-south-and-southeast-asia/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/iri-to-develop-climate-adaptation-tools-to-help-farmers-in-south-and-southeast-asia/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:14:51 +0000 Melika Edquist http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35235 A new two-year climate change initiative, led by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society aims to help farmers in Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Bangladesh reduce their vulnerability to climate risks.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/iri-to-develop-climate-adaptation-tools-to-help-farmers-in-south-and-southeast-asia/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/columbia-university-to-monitor-nyc-waterways/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/columbia-university-to-monitor-nyc-waterways/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:46:10 +0000 Kavita Jain-Cocks http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35225 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/columbia-university-to-monitor-nyc-waterways/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/21/keeping-track-the-state-of-the-planet/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/21/keeping-track-the-state-of-the-planet/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:46:40 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34030 Watch highlights of last October's "State of the Planet" summit, which brought experts together to discuss the challenges of sustainable development, climate change and the environment, as well as some of the solutions.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/21/keeping-track-the-state-of-the-planet/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/17/what-obama-can-and-should-do-about-climate-change/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/17/what-obama-can-and-should-do-about-climate-change/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:02:43 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=33564 As President Obama embarks on his second term, many Americans are hoping that the extreme weather of 2012 will mark a sea change and finally goad him into making meaningful efforts to deal with climate change. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/17/what-obama-can-and-should-do-about-climate-change/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/19/we-dont-know-all-about-hurricanes-but-we-know-enough-to-act/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/19/we-dont-know-all-about-hurricanes-but-we-know-enough-to-act/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:04:16 +0000 Adam Sobel http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=32299 Sandy instantly brought a new kind of national media attention to the influence of global warming on weather disasters. After several years of near-silence on climate from our political leaders and the mainstream media, the renewed attention is profoundly welcome. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/19/we-dont-know-all-about-hurricanes-but-we-know-enough-to-act/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/this-is-a-wake-up-call-dont-hit-the-snooze-button/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/this-is-a-wake-up-call-dont-hit-the-snooze-button/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:06:21 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31910 For years before Hurricane Sandy charged ashore on Monday, researchers from the Earth Institute knew what was coming. As the region struggles to recover from this “superstorm,” we asked some of them to consider the lessons we can learn as we move forward.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/this-is-a-wake-up-call-dont-hit-the-snooze-button/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/a-prescient-voice-on-sandy-suddenly-everyone-is-listening/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/a-prescient-voice-on-sandy-suddenly-everyone-is-listening/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:45:39 +0000 Kim Martineau http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31893 For much of the last decade, Klaus Jacob warned of New York’s vulnerability to severe flooding in a major storm. Four days after the storm that crippled New York and New Jersey and swamped his own home along the Hudson River, Jacob reflected on Sandy's lessons and what comes next.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/06/a-prescient-voice-on-sandy-suddenly-everyone-is-listening/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/31/socially-speaking-the-state-of-the-planet/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/31/socially-speaking-the-state-of-the-planet/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:29:34 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31727 If you wanted to get a sense of the State of the Planet, you didn’t need to be at the Columbia University conference on Oct. 11. You just needed to follow #SOP2012. Six hundred people gathered at the event to think about the future of sustainable development, while 476 people sent 1,300 tweets, making about 6.2 million impressions through Twitter. And one thread running through the event was that social media is an important way to draw attention to sustainable development issues on an international platform and in a comprehensible way.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/31/socially-speaking-the-state-of-the-planet/feed/ 0