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Sep 15 2017
To Predict How Climate Change Will Affect Disease, Researchers Must Fuse Climate Science and Biology
Predicting how climate change will affect the incidence of infectious diseases would have great public health benefits. But the relationship between…
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Aug 22 2017
Orange is the New Green: How Orange Peels Revived a Costa Rican Forest
In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park…
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Jun 29 2017
Climate Change to Damage U.S. Economy, Increase Inequality
Unmitigated climate change will make the United States poorer and more unequal, according to a study published June 29 in the journal Science. The…
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May 25 2017
U.S. Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis to justify its refusal to adopt a critical measure for protecting Americans…
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May 18 2017
'A Bee, a Tree, What’s In It For Me?' Class Examines Environmental Policy
On a morning in March, Professor Michael Oppenheimer pointed to a photograph he took while flying over the North Pole.
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May 03 2017
Current Climate Change Measurements Mask Trade-Offs Necessary for Policy Debates
Scientists and policymakers use measurements like global warming potential to compare how varying greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane,…
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Apr 28 2017
Synthetic Gas Would Cut Air Pollution but Worsen Climate Damage in China
Severe air pollution has plagued China's industrial regions in recent decades, a situation that has received worldwide attention thanks to photos of…
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Feb 21 2017
Baldwin Wins Student Paper Award from American Meteorological Society’s Board on Environment and Health
Jane Baldwin, a Ph.D. candidate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, has received a top student paper award from the American…
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Feb 01 2017
Buchanan Wins Outstanding Student Paper Award from American Geophysical Union
Maya Buchanan, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs concentrating in in Science,…
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Jan 04 2017
The Fire Through the Smoke: Working for Transparency in Climate Projections
The government of a low-lying island nation is considering the construction of a seawall to protect its capital and economic hub from the rising seas…
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Dec 19 2016
Climate Policy Simulator Forces Users to Confront Ethics and Science Behind Policy Choices
Responding to the challenges of climate change depends both on scientific assessment as well as value judgments by citizens, academics and…
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Sep 20 2016
The Next Four Years: The Environment and Climate Change
Issues related to the environment and climate change will demand the new president's attention soon after he or she takes office Jan. 20 and…
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Sep 07 2016
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: World's Largest Reforestation Program Overlooks Wildlife
After years of environmental destruction, China has spent billions of dollars on the world's largest reforestation program, converting a combined…
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Jun 27 2016
Household Fuels Exceed Power Plants and Cars as Source of Smog in Beijing
Beijing and surrounding areas of China often suffer from choking smog. The Chinese government has made commitments to improve air quality and has…
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May 04 2016
As Global Temperatures Rise, Children Must Be Central to Climate Change Debates
Forecasts suggest that by 2050, the world could see 200 million environmental migrants, many of whom would be children. For this reason and others,…
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Apr 29 2016
SINSI Spotlight: Wildlife Conservation on the Ground
For Alexandra Kasdin ’14, MPA ’18, a passion for wildlife conservation began when she was eight years old. Inspired by her first grade teacher—who…
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Apr 27 2016
Graduate Students Tackle Climate Change
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference led to a historic agreement, in which 195 nations promised to reduce future greenhouse gas…
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Feb 23 2016
Q&A: Eileen Claussen and Being a Woman in STEM
Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations remain significantly underrepresented. While the percentages have…
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Feb 18 2016
Ebola Crisis Provides Framework for Responding to Outbreaks like Zika Virus
As world leaders grapple with containing the Zika virus, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa provides valuable lessons for how to respond to other…
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Dec 17 2015
WWS Reacts: Will the Paris Climate Agreement be a 'Turning Point' for the World?
On Dec. 12, the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris ended with the first climate change agreement in which the representatives of…
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Dec 09 2015
“Impassioned Debate” Results in Noteworthy Journal
While producing the annual Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA) is no small task, a review of this year’s 26th edition clearly…
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Dec 07 2015
More Aggressive Climate Policies Are Needed to Save the Future Poor
People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to…
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Nov 23 2015
To Save the Earth, Better Nitrogen Use on a Hungrier Planet Must be Addressed
The global population is expected to increase by two to three billion people by 2050, a projection raising serious concerns about sustainable…
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Nov 12 2015
Princeton-Fung Global Forum Identifies Approaches for Dealing with 'Modern Plagues'
On the verdant campus of University College Dublin, nearly 300 public health experts and practitioners, government officials, scholars and students…
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Sep 03 2015
How to Curb Emissions? Put a Price on Carbon
Literally putting a price on carbon pollution and other greenhouse gasses is the best approach for nurturing the rapid growth of renewable energy and…