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The Great Generalists
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Growing Population Poses Malthusian Question
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Drought? What Drought?
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Energized by Trash
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Looming Global Scale Failures
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Resolving Intractable Conflicts
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Rwanda Millennium Village Brings Prosperity
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Clunker Program's Environmental Benefits Questioned
NPR Weekend Edition, Aug. 23, 2009
Global Economic Crisis Hits Indian Overseas Investments
Deccan World, Aug. 18, 2009
Polio Surge in Nigeria After Vaccine Virus Mutates
AP, Aug. 14, 2009
Where Our Garbage Goes
Reader's Digest, Aug. 9, 2009
A Bold Soil-Mapping Venture
New York Times, Aug. 7, 2009
Digital Soil Map of the World
Science, Aug. 7, 2009
An Environmentally Sustainable Economic Model
Public Radio International, Jul. 22, 2009
Can We Talk About Overpopulation?
Columbia, Jul. 15, 2009
A New Approach to Global Problem Solving
Huffington Post, Jul. 13, 2009
by John W. McArthur
Beacon of Hope in Africa
CNN blogs, Jul. 13, 2009
by Josh Ruxin
Farm Insurance May Help Poor Confront Climate Risk
Reuters, Jun. 24, 2009
End Mountaintop Removal
environment360, Jun. 22, 2009
by James E. Hansen
Earth 2100: Our Civilization's Last Century?
ABC, Jun. 2, 2009
The Global Food Crisis
National Geographic, Jun. 1, 2009
What Can We Learn From the Millennium Villages?
The Guardian, May 26, 2009
The Truth About Water Wars
Seed, May 14, 2009
Engineering Project Promotes Sustainability
Columbia Spectator, Apr. 23, 2009
Green Accomplishments
San Antonio Express News, Apr. 22, 2009
Lessons From the Reverse Engineering of Nature
Miller-McCune Magazine, Apr. 15, 2009
by Shahid Naeem
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Dust Bowl Had Human Fingerprint
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Latest Population Bombs and Busts
New York Times, Mar. 13, 2009
A Smarter Way to Combat Hunger
Nature, Mar. 12, 2009
by Pedro A. Sanchez
Looming Water War in Central Asia
Seed, Mar. 1, 2009
Sustainability Starts in the Classroom
Earth 3.0, Mar. 1, 2009
Muck and Brass
The Economist, Feb. 26, 2009
Managing Ethiopia's Water Resources
Reuters, Feb. 4, 2009
Melting Arctic Prompts Calls for Park on Ice
Wired, Feb. 4, 2009
Obama Green Team Must Make Up for Lost Time
Columbia Record, Jan. 24, 2009
Farmers Reap Benefits of Improved Fertilizer Use
Business Daily (Nairobi), Jan. 21, 2009
Project to Develop Electronic Soil Maps of Africa
Voice of America, Jan. 21, 2009
Clean Water Improves Lives in Senegal
Voice of America, Jan. 16, 2009
10 Best Green Jobs
Fast Company, Jan. 14, 2009
New Soil Map for African Farmers
BBC, Jan. 13, 2009
Obama's Green Team
Popular Science, Dec. 18, 2008
Make Secondary Education Universal
Nature, Dec. 4, 2008
by Joel E. Cohen
Fighting Poverty With Index Insurance
Reuters, Nov. 24, 2008
Ensuring That Gifts Go Where They're Needed
New York Times, Nov. 11, 2008
Rwanda's Millennium Villages
PBS Frontline, Nov. 10, 2008
UN Village Project Boosts Africa
Financial Times, Nov. 3, 2008
Google.org Spends $14 Million to Battle Pandemics
Wired, Oct. 22, 2008
Soros and Sachs on Saving the Economy
Vanity Fair, Oct. 21, 2008
Fate of Economy Rests on Next President: Soros
Reuters, Oct. 20, 2008
Columbia University Unveils Master's Degree in Sustainable Development
Sustainable Business.com, Oct. 13, 2008
Columbia Offers Sustainable-Development Program
Philanthropy Journal, Oct. 5, 2008
Making Microfinance Work
The American.com, Sept. 16, 2008
Climate and Society
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, Sept. 16, 2008
The Man Who Aims to Feed Humanity’s Future
Discover, Sept. 12, 2008
Google’s Philanthropy Arm Leads Effort to Use Weather Data to Fight Disease
New York Times, Sept. 2, 2008
Fighting African Poverty, Village by Village
World Press Review, Aug. 30, 2008
Mobile phones for Africa
The Times (South Africa), Aug. 4, 2008
You Think Oil's Going Down? Think Again
TheStreet.com, Aug. 1, 2008
Should ethical investors dip into water stocks?
Christian Science Monitor, Jul. 13, 2008
Green Countries
Newsweek, Jul. 7, 2008
Africa's Food Crisis Opportunity
Guelph Mercury, Jul. 4, 2008
Taking Care of the Business of Public Health
PlusNews, Jul. 1, 2008
Still Counting Katrina's Dead
Huffington Post, Jun. 28, 2008
Africa needs a farming revolution, experts say
McClatchy Washington Bureau, Jun. 20, 2008
World disaster hotspots
Foreign Policy, Jun. 19, 2008
Water: Pay for It
Forbes.com, Jun. 19, 2008
How a Kenyan village tripled its corn harvest
Christian Science Monitor, Jun. 17, 2008
Food crisis may be a boon for small farmers in Africa
Los Angeles Times, Jun. 13, 2008
Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge
Financial Times Comment, Jun. 11, 2008
New Threat to Food System: Pricey Fertilizer
Reuters, Jun. 10, 2008
World Leaders Confer in Rome as Food Prices Rise
The Takeaway, NPR, Jun. 4, 2008
Developing countries and weather forecasts
BBC’s The World, Jun. 2, 2008
Uganda: Churning Money From Banana Leaves
The Monitor (Kampala), Jun. 2, 2008
Fighting Poverty, Village By Village
AllAfrica.com, May 29, 2008
Backgrounder: African Agriculture
New York Times, May 29, 2008
The seeds of controversy
Ottawa Citizen, May 28, 2008
African Agriculture
Council on Foreign Relations, May 28, 2008
Famine Looms As Wars Rend Horn of Africa
New York Times, May 17, 2008
The Clock Is Running Out
ScienceAlert, May 15, 2008
8 Ways to Fix the Global Food Crisis
US News & World Report, May 9, 2008
Research and Education at the Earth Institute
CNBC World Business, May 9, 2008
Why the 1930s Dust Bowl Was So Bad
LiveScience, May 5, 2008
Global Food Crisis a 'Silent Tsunami'
NPR Talk of the Nation, Apr. 28, 2008
Bond Trader to Sell Rare Stamps for Charity
New York Times, Apr. 14, 2008
10 Fixes for the Planet
Newsweek, Apr. 14, 2008
Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket
CNN, Apr. 14, 2008
Rice Riots: The Global Food Shortage
WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show, Apr. 10, 2008
State of the Planet at Columbia University
Janera.com, Apr. 3, 2008
World Water Day
NPR Science Friday, Mar. 21, 2008
Book: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
By Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, Mar. 7, 2008
Eradicate Malaria? Doubters Fuel Debate
New York Times, Mar. 4, 2008
Millennium Promise
Apogee Photo, Mar. 1, 2008
Subsidising agriculture not enough
The Sunday Times, Feb. 28, 2008
Study Shows Emerging Diseases on Rise
NPR Morning Edition, Feb. 21, 2008
Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Rise
ScienceDaily, Feb. 21, 2008
Britain Is Hotspot of New Germs Says New Study
The Telegraph (London), Feb. 21, 2008
Disease Monitors Looking in Wrong Places
Nature News, Feb. 20, 2008
A Not So Mythic Amazonian
NPR, Feb. 4, 2008
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
New York Times, Dec. 1, 2007
Fighting a Disease of Logistics, He Means Business
New York Times, Nov. 12, 2007
A Handout, Not a Hand Up: A Popular Approach to ‘Sustainable Development’ Doesn’t Work, Experts Say
Boston Globe, Nov. 11, 2007
Bamboo Shoots and Trees
Salon.com, Nov. 5, 2007
Is a Green Revolution Finally Blooming in Africa?
ScientificAmerican.com, Nov. 1, 2007
Water Crisis in India: Is There Water in the Well?
Earth & Sky, Oct. 30, 2007
Combating Malaria: Battling Over Bed Nets
Science, Oct. 26, 2007
Seeds of Change in Rwanda
TIME, Sept. 26, 2007
An African Revolution
Newsweek, Aug. 21, 2007
Going Up or Down
The Economist, Jun. 7, 2007
Fighting Malaria in Uganda: A slide show from the front lines.
Slate, Apr. 25, 2007
What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You?
New York Times Magazine, Dec. 17, 2006
Malanding Jaiteh Describes the World
EarthSky, Sept. 1, 2006
Measuring Our Ability to Map Future Population Growth
San Diego Tribune, Aug. 17, 2006
As a Species, We’re Learning to Be a Mature Adult
EarthSky, Jul. 15, 2006
Innovative Villages Seek to Ease Poverty in Africa
Voice of America, Jun. 28, 2006
It Takes a Village to Save the MDGs
InterPress News Service, May 5, 2006
Not Out of the Woods Just Yet
New York Times, Apr. 20, 2006
In a Kenyan Village, an Experiment in Development Has Started to Pay Off
Associated Press, Mar. 23, 2006
Forecasting Malaria
BBC Radio, Mar. 16, 2006
How Can Scientists Help Address Poverty?
NPR Talk of the Nation, Feb. 27, 2006
Fresh Heat for Energy Policy
Business Week, Sept. 20, 2005
Human Population Grows Up
Scientific American, Sept. 1, 2005
Africa: The Human Footprint
National Geographic, Sept. 1, 2005
Bangladesh’s Deadly Wells
New York Times, Jul. 30, 2005
When Will We Tame the Oceans?
Nature, Jul. 14, 2005
Kenyan Village Serves as Test Case in Fight Against Poverty
New York Times, Apr. 4, 2005
Cutting World Hunger in Half
Science, Jan. 21, 2005
The Next Green Revolution
New York Times, Oct. 6, 2004
Human Population: The Next Half Century
Science, Nov. 14, 2003
Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa
Science, Mar. 15, 2002
