July 18, 2018

Why Indian Farmers Must Grow Less Rice and Wheat

New Columbia University-led research shows that if Indian farmers replaced plots of water-guzzling rice and wheat with less thirsty crops, it could cut down the country’s water consumption by a whopping one-third.
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July 15, 2018

A Giant Iceberg Parked Offshore. It’s Stunning, but Villagers Hit the Road.

Joerg Schaefer, a Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory climate scientist, discusses a huge iceberg that could break apart and send a flood wave over a village in Greenland.
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July 10, 2018

Hot Summer Nights Are Getting Hotter. Here’s Why It’s a Health and Wildfire Risk.

"Warmer nights, especially when combined with dry conditions, can allow fires to continue spreading quite rapidly after sunset," explained Park Williams, a researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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July 3, 2018

A Game-Changing AI Tool for Tracking Animal Movements

Andres Bendesky at Columbia University is using the algorithm to study the fighting behavior of betta fish. “There’s been a need for software like it for a long time, and I expect it to be the standard in the field for a while.”
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June 28, 2018

“Traveling” Brain Waves May Be Critical for Cognition

A new study from a team at Columbia University led by neuroscientist Joshua Jacobs suggests the physical motion of neural signals may play a more important role in brain function than previously thought.
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June 20, 2018

Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now

Thirty years ago, James Hansen, a scientist at Columbia's NASA GISS, issued a warning about the dangers of climate change. The predictions he and other scientists made at the time have proved spectacularly accurate.
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June 20, 2018

The Refugees The World Barely Pays Attention To

A study by Columbia University climate researchers projected that if global temperatures continue their upward march, applications for asylum to the European Union could increase 28 percent to nearly 450,000 per year by 2100.
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