http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/09/the-sahel-is-getting-wetter-but-will-it-last/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/09/the-sahel-is-getting-wetter-but-will-it-last/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 11:58:04 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36212 New research gives a unifying explanation of the Sahel's past, present and future climate patterns. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/09/the-sahel-is-getting-wetter-but-will-it-last/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/03/video-is-drought-in-east-africa-the-new-normal/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/03/video-is-drought-in-east-africa-the-new-normal/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 03:31:40 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26023 A video interview with climate scientist Bradfield Lyon, who explains his latest research on what's driving rainfall patterns in parts of East Africa.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/03/video-is-drought-in-east-africa-the-new-normal/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/24/climates-services-must-help-us-understand-risks/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/24/climates-services-must-help-us-understand-risks/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:00:23 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23166 The point is setting priorities right, and for an agency like the World Food Programme, our focus is of course vulnerable people in the most vulnerable countries, countries where climate change is a multiplier of hunger risk. –- WFP's Carlo Scaramella, in the fifth in a series of video interviews.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/24/climates-services-must-help-us-understand-risks/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/09/health-risks-from-famine-likely-to-persist/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/09/health-risks-from-famine-likely-to-persist/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:58:59 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=18346 Video Short: IRI's Madeleine Thomson discusses the short- and long-term health risks of the East Africa famine]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/09/health-risks-from-famine-likely-to-persist/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/28/hybrid-climate-data-for-east-africa/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/28/hybrid-climate-data-for-east-africa/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:56:20 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=18350 In our latest video interview, climate scientist Tufa Dinku talks about his work on combining weather station data with satellite information to generate high-resolution data sets. These data could be used for making more accurate forecasts and can feed into other climate risk management activities, such as early-warning systems. With funding from Google.org, Dinku and [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/28/hybrid-climate-data-for-east-africa/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/10/climate-underpinnings-of-east-africa-drought/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/10/climate-underpinnings-of-east-africa-drought/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:40:55 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16774 Watch a video interview of climate scientist Brad Lyon on the conditions leading up to the ongoing drought in East Africa. He says there's a chance of La Niña forming later in the year, which could have devastating consequences for a region already plagued by widespread famine.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/10/climate-underpinnings-of-east-africa-drought/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/19/somali-drought-harbinger-of-hard-times/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/19/somali-drought-harbinger-of-hard-times/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:00:45 +0000 Benjamin Preston http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16341 For all its problems, Southern California has been a wonderful home for a lot of people over the past 100 or so years. It has nice beaches, good roads, plenty of places to eat, and, for now, a reliable supply of drinking water. Now imagine the L.A. riots had spread across the entire region, plunging [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/19/somali-drought-harbinger-of-hard-times/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/05/maybe-ben-franklin-was-wrong/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/05/maybe-ben-franklin-was-wrong/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:01:10 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13476 A new study says that for all of its ill effects, the Laki volcanic eruption of 1783-84 probably was not the main culprit behind one of the coldest winters in hundreds of years, as many scientists — and contemporary observer Benjamin Franklin -- have speculated.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/05/maybe-ben-franklin-was-wrong/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/07/28/punjab-a-tale-of-prosperity-and-decline/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/07/28/punjab-a-tale-of-prosperity-and-decline/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:52:09 +0000 Upmanu Lall http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=1005 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/07/28/punjab-a-tale-of-prosperity-and-decline/feed/ 4