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2023 |
Migration and Forced Movement |
India Now the Country with the Largest Population: Social Services More Difficult to Manage |
2022 |
See the Scale of Pakistan’s Flooding in Maps, Photos, and Videos |
Climate Change Has Made India’s Relentless Heat 100 Times More Likely A chart showing the increase of extreme hot-humid heat days for Kolkata and Delhi, based on the Urban Heat Extremes data set distributed by SEDAC, was featured in a Washington Post article. “India has experienced among the fastest increases in urban extreme heat exposure worldwide,” said Cascade Tuholske, a postdoctoral researcher at CIESIN, Columbia University, who led development of the data set. |
30% of Americans Are Moving Because of Climate Change in 2022 CIESIN postdoctoral scientist Cascade Tuholske comments on the phenomenon of people continuing to move to areas experiencing increased risk from climate change—in particular, cities experiencing extreme heat. |
The Census Is Broken. Can AI Fix It? Where the Census is concerned, software and satellite imagery still benefit from human verification on the ground, says CIESIN asociate director for Geospatial applications Greg Yetman in a Wired.com article on the merits of AI in improving Census accuracy. |
Can Blockchain Tech Help Farmers Get Climate Insurance? |
The Great Climate Migration Deseret News, February 23 Our inhouse expert on climate and migration, senior research scientist Alex de Sherbinin, is quoted in an article looking at migration caused by climate change. |
The Thick of It: Delving into the Neglected Global Impacts of Human Waste
Mongabay, January 11 Postdoctoral research scientist Cascade Tuholske is quoted in an article on a new scientific model for analyzing global wastewater impacts, for which he was part of the research team, which mapped 135,000 watersheds worldwide. |
2021 |
Risk of Dangerous Heat Exposure is Quickly Growing in Cities |
Weather Disaster-Related Deaths are Down—Warming Could Undo That Trend As our scientific understanding of weather-related events increases, deaths decrease—but warming trends could reverse that. CIESIN post-doctoral scientist Cascade Tuholske is interviewed about a recent study he was lead author of finding that between 1983 and 2016, exposure to potentially deadly extreme heat tripled worldwide due to population growth, climate change, and cities getting hotter as roads and other hard surfaces absorb heat from the sun. eing felt in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa—places that are already very hot and where urban populations are growing rapidly. |
Deportations of Haitians Spark Concerns over Environmental Refugees In an article on the Biden administration’s lack of a plan to address migrants fleeing from climate impacts and attempting to enter the U.S., CIESIN senior research scientist Alex de Sherbinin called called climate change a “risk multiplier.” He added, “It’s like an additional straw on the camel’s proverbial back that is going to make — in some countries — bad situations become increasingly untenable,” de Sherbinin said. |
Texas Workers Are Dying in the Summer Heat, and Companies Aren’t Being Held Accountable, Texas Public Radio An analysis of federal data on worker heat deaths shows Texas’s numbers have nearly doubled in the last 10 years compared to the previous decade. The reporting by the Texas Newsroom with Columbia Journalism Investigations features OSHA challenges in enforcing safety against extreme heat, and lapses by employers in ensuring protections against heat hazards on the workplace. CIESIN’s Earth Institute post-doctoral research scientist Cascade Tuholske contributed data analysis to the story.
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Why California Workers are Still Dying From Heat, Despite Protections California farmworkers are in the spotlight in this feature on employer lapses in preventing workplace deaths from extreme heat. CIESIN's Earth Institute post-doctoral research scientist Cascade Tuholske contributed data analysis to the story. |
Heat Is Killing Workers in the U.S.—And There Are No Federal Rules To Protect Them NPR-Morning Edition, August 18 CIESIN’s Earth Institute post-doctoral research scientist Cascade Tuholske contributed data analysis to the first of several NPR pieces on a year-long investigation by the Columbia Journalism School on OSHA’s role in worker deaths from extreme heat. The chart visualizing the data is entitled, “Most Heat-Related Worker Deaths Happened On 90°-Plus, Hotter-Than-Average Days.” Three more print pieces and 12 audio pieces are forthcoming. |
‘X’ Marks the Spot: Officials Map a Route Out of the Pandemic |
Wet-Bulb Temperature is Important, Climate Experts Say. So What is it? Identifying the most vulnerable populations and providing resources can address the dangers of growing extremes of high heat and humidity, says CIESIN post-doctoral scientist Cascade Tuholske. |
New Data Hub Improves the Features of over 250 Datasets |
Increasing Numbers of U.S. Residents Live in High-Risk Wildfire and Flood Zones. Why? |
2020 |
Does Climate Change Cause Migration? It’s Complicated Changing Climate, Changing Migration, November 17 For this episode of a podcast produced by the Migration Policy Institute, CIESIN associate director for Science Applications Alex de Sherbinin discusses how climate change and environmental degradation are affecting human migration. |
Keeping NASA EOSDIS Data Flowing (Even When the World is Telecommuting) NASA EOSDIS Web site, August 24 Robert Chen, CIESIN director, talks about the proactive steps taken by the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center operated by CIESIN to maintain continuity of operations during the pandemic. |
Behind the Scenes: Facebook Data for Good |
Gridded Population Datasets: Which One is Fit for Purpose? |
New Earth Surveillance Tech Is About to Change Everything, Including Us |
Are We Thinking About Climate Migration All Wrong? |
Maps Show Where Coronavirus Started and Why Officials are So Worried |
Data as a Development Aid This profile of Facebook data scientist Andreas Gros and the Data for Good project describes his work with CIESIN on the high-resolution settlement layer (HRSL), using cutting-edge artificial intelligence to identify buildings from publicly available mapping services, and create the most accurate population records available. |
2019 |
Study: FEMA Flood Buyouts Favor the Wealthy |
These Maps Show How Many Cities Are Much Hotter Than Their Surroundings Buzzfeed News, July 19 In a discussion by Buzz Feed science writer Peter Aldhous of the implications of rising temperatures from climate change, global maps from the NASA Socioeoeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Satellite-Derived Environmental Indicators data collection visualize the contemporary phenomenon of urban heat island effects. |
Jay Inslee Is Actually Taking the Climate Refugee Crisis Seriously Gizmodo Earther, June 6 Alex de Sherbinin, associate director for Science Applications at CIESIN, is interviewed in a story for a story on presidential hopeful Jay Inslee and his stance on immigration and climate change. Climate change will trigger more migration, de Sherbinin says. “And particularly it may trigger more distressed migration from countries where other factors are already propelling people to leave—Central America being one of those regions,” de Sherbinin told Earther. |
Air Pollution Remains a Major Global Threat CGTN America, June 5 In a story on global air pollution, Alex de Sherbinin, associate director with CIESIN, references the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) that CIESIN produces every two years with the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He discusses the countries assessed by the EPI as critical air polluters, noting, “Our own ranking found that India and China are basically neck and neck in terms of their air quality issues. It’s basically a function of heavy reliance on coal burning and other technology.” |
Get Ready for Tens of Millions of Climate Refugees CIESIN associate director for Science Applications Alex de Sherbinin is interviewed for an article examining the migration models used in the report Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration, of which de Sherbinin is a co-author. “We’re never going to get exact numbers,” he says, “but if people understand what the model is doing, they can get very useful information out of it.” |
2018 |
Technology and Satellite Companies Open Up a World of Data Nature, May 29 In an article in Nature, CIESIN director Robert Chen discusses CIESIN’s recent collaborative work with Facebook producing high-resolution population data for rural areas in 18 countries around the world. |
Darren Aronofsky’s New TV Series Breaks With the Hollywood Playbook On Climate Change The Huffington Post, March 25 A 10-part series, “One Strange Rock, by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky uses technically complex cinematography to bring new insights into aspects of the Earth that deem it inhabitable. In this article on the new show produced by National Geographic, Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN associate director for Science Applications, cautions that Hollywood depictions of climate change that focus too much on scientists’ most dire warnings risk alienating viewers. He says, “I think movies need to be careful about the shock value, which can breed a kind of helplessness or ‘Why bother?’” de Sherbinin told HuffPost. “I have seen art exhibits that create a sort of sadness. That may be a more effective emotion to trigger, as long as it is not completely hopeless.” He is co-author of a report released March 2018, Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration. The study is the first to focus on longer-term climate impacts on crop and water resources and the ways in which they may influence internal migration. |
El Exilio Climático: Habrá Millones de Nuevos Sin An extensive interview with CIESIN research scientist Susana Adamo, who discusses the report, Groundswell:Preparing for Internal Climate Migration, the first to focus on longer-term climate impacts on crop and water resources and the ways in which they may influence internal migration. Adamo is a co-author of the report. In Spanish. |
Wave of Climate Migration Looms, but It ‘Doesn't Have to Be a Crisis’ |
El Cambio Climático Desplazará a 17 Millones de Latino Americanos Susana Adamo, CIESIN research scientist, is quoted in this article on the report, Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration. The innovative approach to modeling used in the report illuminates the various forces influencing migration. She is a co-author. In Spanish. |
La Banque Mondiale S’inquiète du sort des Déplacés Climatiques Le Monde, March 19 Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN associate director for Science Applications, is quoted on the report, Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration, which uses an innovative approach to climate modelling. He is a co-author of the study. In French. |
The Role of Climate Change and Human Mismanagement in the Lake Chad Environmental Disaster |
2017 |
The United States is Polluting the World and Locking Refugees Out The Nation, December 7 An article on climate-induced migration quotes a report by CIESIN with CARE, UNHCR, UNU-EHS, and The World Bank, “In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement.” The report, written in 2009, stated: “Although the exact number of people that will be on the move by mid-century is uncertain, the scope and scale could vastly exceed anything that has occurred before.” |
Too Sunny in Philadelphia? Satellites Zero In on Dangerous Urban Heat Islands For a paper published in Applied Geography, CIESIN researcher and associate director for Science Applications Alex de Sherbinin and colleagues from Battelle Memorial Institute studied air temperature data for Philadelphia to identify the populations there most vulnerable to heat. |
Robert Chen Profile Ubique—American Geographical Society Newsletter, June 21 For the “Getting to Know” spotlight of the American Geographical Society Newletter, CIESIN director and American Geographical Society Councilor Robert Chen talks about how geography is the thread throughout decades of work bridging the gap between research and applications, from research on sea level rise to helping develop the first global gridded data set on population distribution to innovative approaches to using data in collaboration with Facebook and Connected Worlds. |
Climate Stress and the Next Global Conflict In conjunction with a segment of the ABC-TV news show Nightline, “Climate for Conflict: Fighting to Survive in Somalia Plagued by Drought,“ that aired May 30, CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy was interviewed by Amna Nawaz on the the intersection of climate change and conflict in Somalia. |
Satellite Images Reveal Gaps in Global Population Data Nature | News, May 9 |
The Briefing Powered by Dartmouth SiriusXM Insight Channel 121, February 18 Susana Adamo, CIESIN research scientist, was interviewed February 18 on a new radio show from Dartmouth College, “The Briefing,” broadcast on SiriusXM Insight Channel 121. Speaking with the host, Mike Mastanduno, dean of faculty at Dartmouth, Adamo discussed current research and concerns about climate change and human migration. To hear an excerpt from the interview, go here. |
2016 |
Obama Just Tied Climate Change to National Security Climate Central, September 22 In an article featured on Climate Central, CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy comments on the presidential memorandum released September 21, which establishes a timetable for more than 20 U.S. federal agencies to incorporate climate science into national security plans. “Climate change has contributed to the emergence of civil war, refugee flow,s and other elements of instability,” Levy said. “But the follow-on impacts from climate-triggered instability extend worldwide, as seen in the European refugee crisis, which has strong connections to the Syrian conflict, which in turn has strong connections to climate stress.” |
A Changing Climate Will Continue to Put People out of Their Homes In an article at Washingtonpost.com, Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN associate director for science applications, says it’s important to question the frequency, spatial area, intensity and duration of fires/floods under climate change—are they increasing? |
Researchers Study Threat to Mangroves in Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast CIESIN associate director for science applications Alex de Sherbinin discusses a new research study by CIESIN that addresses threats to the mangrove forests of Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, from climate change-induced sea level rise, human-caused deforestation, and other factors. |
Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World CIESIN is teaming with Facebook to create detailed new population distribution maps, as part of Facebook’s larger initiative to bring connectivity to the entire world. CIESIN Director Robert Chen is interviewed. |
Facebook’s New Map of World Population Could Help Get Billions Online |
Facebook is Using AI to Make Detailed Maps of Where People Live |
Facebook Launches Project to Open Source Hardware, Designs for Cell Networks Facebook’s new population maps; plans for a global cellular network. |
2015 |
Global Warming Linked to Syrian Refugee Crisis Public Radio International, September 11 An audio interview and written transcript, with Marc Levy, deputy director of CIESIN, about the current refugee crisis and the future of climate-related conflicts and migrations. |
A Signal From the Noise trajectorymagazine.com, September 2 An article on links between national security and climate change includes remarks by CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy. “It’s easy to imagine how a political hotspot layered with a climate hotspot could result in disaster,” he said, citing examples of regions where prior grievances coupled with an unprecedented drought or flood has led to unrest. |
It’s Only a Game, but Even Earth Scientists Struggle to Defeat Global Warming |
What Haiti Needs to Do Next In this Op-Ed reflection on progress in Haiti since the earthquake, CIESIN program director Alex Fischer and deputy director Marc Levy discuss the national-scale development plan (PSDH) implemented in Haiti since the earthquake. They point out that the PSDH is is an emerging model of development planning for a fragile country, an encouraging step, but with several flaws, chief among them the lack of baseline data. |
Monday Marks Five Years Since Devastating Earthquake Al Jazeera America News, January 12 For an Al Jazeera show, “The Week Ahead,” CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy was interviewed about Haiti's status five years following the earthquake. He refers to Haiti as a “fragile than a failed state.” |
2014 |
In Jakarta, That Sinking Feeling is All Too Real Reuters, December 23 A Reuters analysis of data developed by the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center operated by CIESIN on the number of people worldwide who live in low-elevation coastal zones shows that Asian nations accounted for the biggest increases during the period between 1990 and 2010. This article is one in a 5-part series on the global impacts of rising sea level, “Water’s Edge: The Crisis of Rising Sea Levels.” |
Facebook’s Plan to Wire the World Time, December 11 In his interview with Time magazine, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls SEDAC’s Gridded Population of the World data set a “fascinating data set.” CIESIN GIS staff have been interacting with Internet.org, Facebook’s non-profit entity that facilitates global connectivity. |
Are Megacities Friend or Foe in the Fight Against Climate Change? Senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin is quoted in an article exploring the positive and negative aspects of so-called megacities—cities with populations of 10 million or greater—in adapting to climate change. |
Capacity-Building Workshop in Vulnerability A Nairobi training led by CIESIN geospatial specialists was featured in an article by the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development. Participants used advanced geospatial processing techniques to creat a preliminary vulnerability map using Kenya as a case study to be replicated in other countries. |
2013 |
American Experts Provide Support for SL-EPA An article in an online Sierra Leonian newspaper reports on the visit by CIESIN associate director Mark Becker and program manager Alex Fischer to the Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency in Freetown. Becker and Fischer were there to conduct a needs assessment towards the goal of establishing a robust GIS system and spatial data infrastructure for the agency and government-wide. |
At Data Symposium, Presentation Emphasized A Research Data Symposium was held February 27 at Columbia University, hosted by Columbia’s Center for Digital Research Scholarship and Columbia University Libraries. CIESIN Director Robert Chen was quoted in a panel discussion on how to make data more accessible: “I’m very supportive that open data is key to being more efficient, but it is still a means to an end,” Chen said. “We do have to keep the perspective that the goal of science is to benefit people, and to use this science in the best way possible is to make it most efficient.” |
Migration: From Drought to Flooding CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin is quoted in an article reporting research on migration patterns involving movement from drylands and mountainous areas towards large coastal cities. “This is good news in the sense that people are leaving drought-prone areas that are likely to see increasing vulnerabilities owing to climate change and variability,” de Sherbinin said in the article. "But on the flip side, people are moving towards coasts, which depending on the region, can put them at far greater risk of cyclones and floods.” For more information on the modeling methods used in the research, read the full report for the Foresight Project, and for a more detailed examination of migration in marginal and risk prone regions, read the article on Migration and Risk in Environmental Research Letters. |
Sandy’s Wake |
Understanding How Rainfall Affects Food Security and Migration
Climate & Development Knowledge Network, January 1 An in-depth discussion of the Where the Rainfalls initiative, by Kevin Henry of CARE. The project explored the relationships among rainfall, food security and migration by undertaking field research at district level in Guatemala, Peru, Ghana, Tanzania, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Vietnam during 2011–2012. CIESIN developed original maps for each research site. |
2012 |
Africa’s Disappearing Savannahs Threaten Lion Populations
Redorbit.com, December 5 An article on the threat to lion habitats in Africa notes that human population density data developed by CIESIN contributed to an understanding of which areas were still favorable for lions. |
Green, White, Greener: Nigeria and Its Environment at 52 A blog about environmental protection in Nigeria references the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), published every two years by CIESIN and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. |
Initiative to Establish Research Data Alliance Moves Forward CIESIN director Robert Chen is quoted on the growing challenges to sharing data, including the importance of “building digital bridges” between institutional silos of information, in an article referring to a symposium on global scientific data infrastructures, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) August 29, which addressed this issue while focusing on a new initiative to establish a Research Data Alliance (RDA). |
China’s Population and Economy are a Double Whammy for the World Los Angeles Times, July 23 A map of CIESIN’s Human Footprint data, developed by its NASA program SEDAC, shows where Earth has been most altered by humans. This appears in part four of a five-part series, “Beyond 7 Billion,” that looks at impacts of rapid population growth. |
2011 |
Population Researchers Look for Room in Academe The Chronicle in Higher Education, October 30 Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN senior research associate and co-leader of the Population-Environment Research Network sponsored by CIESIN, comments, in an article discussing the value of university research in addressing pressing issues related to global population growth. |
Countries Must Plan for Climate Refugees - Report Reuters, October 27 Governments and relief agencies should anticipate climate change displacement, according to a new report in Science written by CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin and others. |
CU-Haiti Relationship Remains Strong, Profs Say An article exploring
Haiti President Michel Martelly’s absence from the recent World Leader’s Forum sponsored by Columbia University emphasizes the continuation of a strong relationship between the the Haiti Regeneration Initiative (HRI) project and the Haitian government. CIESIN staff and project leaders Marc Levy and Alex Fischer are interviewed. |
Global Geospatial Group to Promote Equitable Data Access SciDevNet, August 18 In an article on the new UN Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management, CIESIN associate director of Geospatial Applications Division Mark Becker is quoted on the value of geospatial information and analysis, and how the new committee could increase the efficient use of spatial information in projects for developing countries. |
Worldview’s Annual Earth Day Quiz Chicago Public Media, WBEZ 91.5, April 22 The 2010 Environmental Performance Index is the basis for a segment of questions in the radio station's annual Earth Day Quiz. Senior staff associate Alex de Sherbinin explains some of the answers. |
UN Climate Change Chief Says World Needs Plan for Scarce Resources |
Could People From Kiribati Be ‘Climate Change Refugees?’ NPR News Blog, February 17 The phenomenon of climate change as a cause of migration is complex, and raises questions about categorizing such migrants as refugees. |
Return to Haiti In a status report on Haiti resoration efforts following the earthquake, program coordinator of the Haiti Regeneration Initiative, Alex Fischer, discusses project activities. |
Cholera and Cooperation Play into Haiti Reforestation National Geographic Daily News, January 13 A discussion of a relationship of water issues to reforestation efforts in Haiti, with comments by Haiti Regeneration Initiative program coordinator Alex Fischer. Part of a National Geographic News series on global water issues. |
2010 |
Climate-Security Linkages Lost in Translation CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy shows how an interpretation of new study results refuting climate and security inkages jumps to an unsupported conclusion. |
Climate Impact on Corn Farming Could Influence Border Crossing CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin comments on a study of the relationship of climate change to corn farming in Mexico and possible implications for increased border crossings into U.S. He says the part of the study that focuses on historical data is most useful. |
Library of Congress Takes Leadership An article about efforts on the part of the Library of Congress to preserve digital data via the
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
features CIESIN’s role in helping to develop a
Geospatial Data Preservation Web portal; CIESIN senior digital archivist Robert Downs comments. |
Parks Not Burdening Poor Neighbors, Study Says Although a “well-constructed” study, the data used are from just two countries, and relatively well-off ones at that, notes CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin in this article about the effect of protected areas on people living in the park margins. |
What Country is the Best at Protecting the Environment? |
A Future for Haiti: Science and Solutions for a Beleaguered Nation (video) CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy and program coordinator Alex Fischer talk about the Haiti Regeneration Initiative, a collaborative project to restore Haiti’s degraded ecosystems. |
The Climate Change Report under Scrutiny Columbia University’s radio station interviews CIESIN director Robert Chen in a discussion of the independent body that will review UN work on climate change. |
Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones Data and maps compiled by CIESIN and the Center for Hazards and Risk Research are featured in a front-page news article in the New York Times (print version February 25) assessing the vulnerability of buildings in earthquake zones. Where Shoddy Construction Could Mean Death shows a map (top) that depicts the predicted number of deaths in Instanbul from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, depending on the type of construction of the building. The second map (bottom) ranks the vulnerability of other urban areas in earthquake zones with more than one million people. |
Earthquakes and Aftershocks An interactive map shows impacts from the recent Haiti earthquake. |
People Reported Missing via IReport The population density of people missing as a result of the recent Haiti earthquake is shown on this interactive map. |
Haiti’s Tomorrow May Be Rooted in Trees, Fertilizer A discussion of the Haiti Regeneration Initiative and how its aims to restore Haiti’s ecology are fundamental to the nation’s progress. |
Defining Environmental Migrants, Policy Innovations, February 11 The difficulties involved in distinguishing migrants forced to move by climate change from those who move for more traditional reasons is discussed by . |
From the Bottom Up In an article on rebuilding Haiti following the earthquake, CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy talks about the shifting pattern of risk. |
Iceland Leads Environmental Index as U.S. Falls The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which ranks 163 countries on environmental performance and has been produced every two years since 2006 by researchers at CIESIN and Yale University’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy, was released at the recent World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos, Switzerland. |
A Próxima Tragédia do Haiti? (The Next Tragedy for Haiti?) Interview with CIESIN director Robert Chen, focused on natural disaster prevention and related issues in terms of the Haiti recent earthquake. In Portuguese. |
Devastation in Haiti: The Looming Threat CIESIN program coordinator Alexander Fischer and deputy director Marc Levy discuss the work that brought them to Haiti, the Haiti Restoration Initiative. |
New City Man Recalls Desperation of Poor Rockland County, New York, native and CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy was in Haiti for fieldwork on a major project aiming to regenerate the environmental degration there. This article describes his experience during the Haiti earthquake and offers some insights into the factors exacerbating the consequences of the earthquake. |
Rebuilding Haiti from the Roots Up CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy is interviewed about his ecological restoration work in Haiti and related issues in the context of the recent earthquake. |
Experts: Aid Must Target Haiti’s Underlying Issues The radio station’s flagship show features CIESIN program coordinator Alexander Fischer discussing his work in consideration of future concerns for restoring Haiti after the earthquake. |
Earthquake in Haiti Shattered Efforts to Restore Resources, Boost Agriculture |
Vt. Natives Remember Day Haiti Broke Apart CIESIN program coordinator Alexander Fischer recounts his experiences in Haiti during the earthquake. |
Caught in the Danger Zone CIESIN supplied population density data for a map of the Haiti earthquake. |
A Catalog of Change Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2009 CIESIN’s role in making climate change data freely available to the public is noted in an article in this annual collection articles about how scientists use earth science data to learn about the planet. |
2009 |
The (Welcome) End of Unanimity |
Sea Level Rise May Exceed Worst Expectations Nature News, December 16 Marc Levy comments on a new study of sea level rise that examines the most recent previous interglacial stage, when the climate was similar to that predicted for our future. |
The Pitfalls of ‘Saving' the Rainforest’ CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin discusses a United National program for reducing deforestation emissions, known as REDD, whereby polluters in the North would pay rainforest countries to keep from cutting forests, in one of a series of blogs offering insights on the World Climate Summit. |
Terra Viva! SEDAC Viewer: Map Tutorial |
The Military-Climatological Complex State of the Planet, December 11 As part of a special blog series on the World Climate Summit, CIESIN deputy director, Marc Levy, suggests international action on potential security issues related to climate change. |
To the Lifeboats: What Happens When Your Country Drowns? CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin is interviewed on climate and migration issues. |
Missives from Marrakech: Enter the Environment CIESIN associate research scientist, Susana Adamo, talks about possible links between population and climate change in her plenary presentation at the most recent IUSSP conference, covered on this Wilson Center blog. |
Natural Disasters Displace Millions, Report Says, but Climate Change’s Role Remains Murky ClimateWire, September 28 A discussion of the complexity of determining the causes of natural disasters and the role of climate change, with comments by CIESIN senior research associate and co-author of climate and migration report, Alex de Sherbinin. |
Mapping Population and Geographic Data The New Security Beat, September 24 In this blog by the Center Environmental and Security Program (ECSP), CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy talks with ECSP director Geoff Dabelko, about using the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) data product to aid in combining population and geographic data. |
CIESIN Demographer Awarded Grant from Argentina CIESIN associate research scientist, Susana Adamo, who received a research grant from the Argentine government
to encourage collaborative connections with its researchers living abroad, is profiled. |
A New (Under) Class of Travellers |
A New Report Says Climate Change Could Spur Unprecedented Migration Climate Matters@Columbia, June 18 Earth Institute blog on climate-related issues features the new climate and migration report. |
Packing Up, Due to Climate Change New climate report co-author Alex de Sherbinin is interviewed. |
Making the Case for Climate as a Migration Driver The New York Times, June 14 Green Inc., an energy blog, features new climate and migration report. |
Report Disperses Migration Myth Nature.com, June 11 Nature reports on the need for climate refugees to be considered in ongoing policy negotiations, outlined in the new climate and migration report. |
Habra Migrantes sin Retorno (People May Have to Leave Their Homes) Radio Netherlands, June 11 Spanish-language radio interview with Susana Adamo, co-author of the new report on climate and migration. |
Geo Quiz PRI’s The World, June 10 The climate and migration report is featured in the radio show’s daily geography quiz. |
Climate Change Will Force Millions to Move |
Climate Change May Displace Up to 200 Million CNN.com, June 10 Discussion of a new report, In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement, co-authored by CIESIN with CARE and UN University. |
Taliban Wages War on Police in Its New Front in Pakistan |
The World’s Cleanest Countries Forbes.com, April 15 The 2008 Environmental Performance Index performance and the U.S. ranking relative to Europe’s, discussed by CIESIN’s Marc Levy. |
Has the Economic Meltdown Made Us Rethink Our Needs? Your Call series podcast, March 30 CIESIN’s Marc Levy and Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society feature The Human Footprint and Last of the Wild data in a discussion of the implications of the current global financial crisis for human consumption and the environment. |
Intel Chief: Climate Change Threatens U.S. Security UPI, February 18 CIESIN’s Marc Levy talks about the role of richer nations in dealing with carbon dioxide emissions. |
Scorecard on the Environment Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2008 features an article on how SEDAC data used for the 2008 Environmental Performance Index and other environmental assessments; CIESIN’s Marc Levy is interviewed. |
Climate Change to Prompt Migration Earth and Sky Radio Series podcast, January 6 Audio interview with CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin. |
2008 |
Adapting to Climate Change Earth and Sky Radio Series podcast, December 22 Audio interview with CIESIN senior research associate Alex de Sherbinin. |
Where Species Live and Scientists Develop Species Distribution Grids Earth and Sky Radio Series podcasts, December 16 Audio interviews with CIESIN geographic information specialist Malanding Jaiteh. |
Environmental Researcher Issues Warning |
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Climate Change and National Security |
Jack Dangermond Shows Human Footprint in Address to Western Governor’s Association ESRI blog, July 9, 2008 |
Climate Change May Challenge National Security |
Green Countries |
NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath |
Turning Schools from Death Traps into Havens Science Times section of The New York Times, May 27 Map of school-age children in earthquake zones illustrates article: following the recent earthquakes in China, experts assess school safety and the vulnerability of children to earthquakes. |
Earthquake Rocks China WSJ Online, May 13 Map of China illustrates an article comparing the location of the Sichuan province earthquakes with population centers in China. |
Map describing the path of Cyclone Nargis through the Irrawaddy Delta and the populations affected CNN Video Newscast (requires Flash), May 7 |
Study Shows Emerging Diseases on Rise A new study appearing in the Feb. 21 issue of Nature presents the first scientific evidence that emerging diseases are on the rise and that zoonoses—diseases from wildlife—are the prime threat, due to encroachment of wild areas by human population growth and related impacts. |
Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Rise ScienceDaily, February 21 |
Britain is Hotspot of New Germs Says New Study The Telegraph (London), February 21 |
Disease Monitors ‘Looking in the Wrong Places’ Nature News, February 20 |
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