Technology
The Earth Needs Multiple Ways to Remove CO2 From the Air to Avert the Worst of Climate Change
The Conversation, Dec 13, 2019
Can We See 'Risk' From Space?
Reliefweb, Nov 15, 2019
Heat Pumps: Efficient, Environmentally Friendly
WBUR, Aug 29, 2019
Why Do So Many Americans Ask About Nuking a Hurricane?
CNN, Aug 26, 2019
New York Reduces Pollution and Related Deaths
U.S. News & World Report, Aug 8, 2019
New Project Defends Renewable Energy
Torchlight, Jun 1, 2019
How A.I. Can Help Handle Severe Weather
New York Times, May 12, 2019
Tree Rings Contain Secrets From the Forest
Popular Science, Mar 20, 2019
Study Tracks Climate Variation's Impact on Green Power Generation
Climatewire, Dec 13, 2018
Can AI Defeat the Dreaded Tsetse Fly?
Columbia Magazine, Dec 10, 2018
Columbia University Opens Carbon Management Initiative
Axios, Sep 17, 2018
Artificial Intelligence Used to Track World's Wildlife
Voice of America, Aug 7, 2018
How to Protect the Connected Energy Grid
Wall Street Journal, Jun 28, 2018
Algorithms Aid Tracking of Migrating Songbirds in Arctic
Voice of America, Jun 25, 2018
Learning to Listen
The Poetry of Science, Jun 22, 2018
Scientist Uses Bacteria to Clean Toxic Soil
Crain's New York Business, Jun 1, 2018
Seagliders Illuminate Effects of Climate Change on Antarctic Ice Shelf
Paul Allen.com, Mar 28, 2018
This Scientist Dodged the Russians to Try to Halt Nuclear Testing
The Verge, Mar 20, 2018
How Should We Design Cities on Mars?
Co.Design, Mar 1, 2018
Seized Ivory Probed for Clues That Could Help Save Elephants
Associated Press, Jan 29, 2018
New Pathways for Upward Mobility in the Face of Automation
PC Magazine, Nov 22, 2017
Can Tweaking the Atmosphere Help Us Fight Climate Change?
Science Friday, Nov 17, 2017
Scientists: Strategic Crop Growth Based on Climate Change Could Feed 825 Million More
Ecowatch, Nov 8, 2017
Scientists Ready Robots to Study Antarctic Ice Shelves From Underneath, With $2M Donor Boost
GeekWire, Nov 7, 2017
New Study Can Help Scientists Detect Habitable Planets
International Business Times, Oct 24, 2017
The Energy Industry Plots a Complex Path in the Midst of Disruption
New York Times, Oct 18, 2017
As the Earth Melts
Air & Space, Sep 20, 2017
An Underground 'Hyperloop' Connecting East Coast Cities?
Los Angeles Times, Jul 20, 2017
Learn From China How to Make Energy From Waste
Times of India, Apr 12, 2017
Saving Our Marine Data
Eos, Feb 23, 2017
Oroville Dam Crisis Could Be the First of Many
Undark, Feb 16, 2017
Oroville Is a Warning That Infrastructure Matters
CNN, Feb 16, 2017
Award Highlights Need to Preserve Historic Geoscience Data
Eos, Dec 28, 2016
The $8 Trillion Fight to Rid America of Fossil Fuels
Bloomberg News, Aug 30, 2016
In Breakthrough, CO2 Turned to Stone in Iceland
Guardian, Jun 9, 2016
Project in Iceland for Storing Carbon Shows Promise
New York Times, Jun 9, 2016
An Iceland Plant Is Turning Carbon Dioxide to Rock
Washingont Post, Jun 9, 2016
How to Capture Carbon Dioxide and Turn It to Stone
Los Angeles Times, Jun 9, 2016
Putting CO2 Away for Good by Turning It to Stone
The Conversation, Jun 9, 2016
Experiment Turns Waste CO2 to Stone
BBC, Jun 9, 2016
Studying Life on the Rocks
Eurekalert, May 31, 2016
Geoengineering Won't Save Us From Sea-Level Rise
Newsweek, Mar 9, 2016
An Airborne Look Through Antarctic Ice
Antarctic Sun, Feb 24, 2016
Facebook's New Map of World Population Could Help Billions Get Online
MIT Technology Review, Feb 23, 2016
Can the U.S. Duplicate Germany's Renewable Energy Revolution?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Feb 18, 2016
Seismologists: That Was a Small Quake for an H-Bomb
CNBC, Jan 6, 2016
Liquid Assets: The Challenge of Reusing Water
Columbia magazine, Sep 16, 2015
Battling Earthly Plagues From Space
The Academic Minute, Sep 1, 2015
Futuristic Water Systems
WAMC, Jul 15, 2015
A New Suite of Instruments Measures Antarctica's Ice
Antarctic Sun, Jun 8, 2015
Eyes in Sky Monitor Weather, Predict Epidemics
Voice of America, May 7, 2015
Illegal Ivory Spotted by Radiocarbon Analysis
CBC, Mar 3, 2015
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Rock, and Burying It
New York Times, Feb 10, 2015
Experts Dismiss North Korea's 'Hydrogen Bomb' Test
International Business Times, Jan 6, 2015
CO2 Capture from Air Could Ripen Into Climate Solution
Cimatewire, Aug 8, 2014
Waste to Energy Could Meet 12% of U.S. Electricity Demand
Waste Management World, Jul 11, 2014
Can Artificial Trees Help Take CO2 From the Air?
Huffington Post, Jul 2, 2014
Big Data and Climate Clues Helping Prevent Disease Outbreaks
Forbes, Jun 22, 2014
Five Unconventional Ways to Tap Fresh Water
Nature, Jun 18, 2014
Scientists Urge More Research Dollars for Pulling CO2 From Air
ClimateWire, Apr 16, 2014
Can CO2 Removal Save the Planet?
Al Jazeera, Apr 10, 2014
What If You Could Drive 100,000 Miles on a Tank of Gas?
ABC News, Mar 12, 2014
Exploring CO2 Sequestration in the New York Suburbs
CBS Radio, Sep 30, 2013
Could Carbon Dioxide Be Stored Deep Beneath NYC?
LiveScience, Sep 25, 2013
Scientists Test Gas Storage Theory With Palisades Drilling
Rockland Journal News, Sep 23, 2013
Could Fracking Store Millions of Tons of CO2 in Rock?
Climatewire, Sep 10, 2013
Carbon Storage Studies Grapple With Geology and Politics
Climate Central, Sep 3, 2013
New Forensic Technique Could Cut Illegal Ivory Trade
Rockland Journal News, Aug 13, 2013
Pilot Projects Bury Carbon Dioxide in Basalt
Nature, Jul 26, 2013
Forensic Testing of Ivory Could Combat Poaching
Voice of America, Jul 2, 2013
Cold War Radioactivity Can Date Illegal Ivory
National Geographic, Jul 1, 2013
How Bomb Tests Could Date Illegal Ivory
LiveScience, Jul 1, 2013
Using Nuclear Fallout to Stop Black-Market Ivory
Popular Mechanics, Jul 1, 2013
Carbon From Nuclear Tests Could Help Fight Elephant Poachers
BBC, Jul 1, 2013
A Vision of Our Transport Future
Nature, May 9, 2013
400PPM: Can Artificial Trees Help Pull CO2 From the Air?
Scientific American, May 9, 2013
Should Utilities Be Required to Bury Power Lines to Protect Them?
Wall Street Journal, Apr 15, 2013
Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes, Says Study
Chemical & Engineering News, Apr 2, 2013
Lessons Not Learned: Insider Threats in Pathogen Research
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Apr 1, 2013
Study Links 2011 Oklahoma Quake to Technique at Oil Wells
New York Times, Mar 28, 2013
Quake Tied to Oil-Drilling Waste Adds Pressure for Rules
Bloomberg News, Mar 27, 2013
Oklahoma Earthquake Linked to Oil Extraction Wastewater
BBC News, Mar 27, 2013
Oklahoma Earthquake Was Largest Linked to Injection Wells, New Study Suggests
Oklahoma StateImpact, Mar 27, 2013
Fracking's Latest Scandal: Earthquake Swarms
Mother Jones, Mar 27, 2013
Seismologists Monitor North Korea Nuclear Blast
Voice of America, Feb 25, 2013
Can Artificial Trees Help Take Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air?
Huffington Post, Feb 21, 2013
North Korea Nuke Test May Offer Intelligence Windfall
Associated Press, Feb 13, 2013
North Korea Gives Few Clues on Its Nuclear Program
New York Times, Feb 13, 2013
Carbon Capture Technologies That Could Help Fight Climate Change
Earth Island Journal, Jan 24, 2013
Method for Mapping Hotspots of Lead Could Safeguard Children
New York Times, Dec 11, 2012
Did North Korea Really Light Up a Nuke in 2010?
Popular Mechanics, Oct 16, 2012
Can We Really Spot Covert Nuclear Tests?
New Scientist, Oct 15, 2012
PepsiCo Launches New Facebook-Inspired Carbon Calculator
GreenBiz.com, Oct 9, 2012
Software Tool Helps Manufacturers Track Carbon Footprints
ClimateWire, Sep 18, 2012
Researchers Unveil Facebook-Inspired CO2 Calculator
Business Green, Sep 18, 2012
Recent Advances in Monitoring Nuclear Tests
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Ban Organization, Sep 10, 2012
Climate carbon technologies considered
UPI online, Jul 26, 2012
Scrubbing Carbon From the Air
City Atlas, May 1, 2012
Can Microgrids Electrify 1 Billion People?
Green Tech, Mar 26, 2012
Pulling CO2 From the Air: Can It Be Done?
The Economist, Mar 17, 2012
Direct Air Capture of CO2 Becomes a Business, for Better or Worse
Energy Collective, Mar 12, 2012
Newly Robust Maps May Help Ethiopia Cope With Weather
ClimateWire, Mar 12, 2012
New Storage Project Turns CO2 Emissions to Stone
ClimateWire, Mar 5, 2012
We Don't Need Trees
Earth Times, Oct 28, 2011
Nonrecycled Plastics Could Be Energy Source for U.S.
American Chemistry Council, Oct 12, 2011
Burning Nonrecyclable Plastics for Energy
ClimateWire, Oct 12, 2011
Earliest Signs of Advanced Tools Found
New York Times, Aug 31, 2011
That CO2 Warming the World: Lock It in a Rock
Associated Press, Aug 28, 2011
The Quest to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Natl. Geographic News, Aug 11, 2011
Cleaning Up the Carbon Mess
Bloomberg TV, Aug 1, 2011
Artificial Trees and Carbon Capture
WAMC public radio, Jun 9, 2011
Study Raises Doubt on Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Air
New York Times, May 9, 2011
Saving the World With Synthetic Trees
Wall Street Journal, Apr 25, 2011
Carbon Dioxide: From Pollutant to Asset
OnEarth, Feb 23, 2011
High-Tech Gadgets Measure the Human 'Exposome'
Nature, Feb 16, 2011
How Mobiles Save Lives in the Developing World
Cisco News, Jan 24, 2011
Information Technology's Role in Sustainable Development
Treehugger, Dec 6, 2010
Oil + Water
Columbia, Oct 15, 2010
Low Oil Spill Estimates Rested on 'Unexplained Assumptions'
USA Today, Oct 6, 2010
New Estimate of Gulf Oil Flow
PBS Newshour, Sep 23, 2010
Gulf Spill Volume Estimated From Video
BBC, Sep 23, 2010
Study Suggests Last U.S. Gulf Spill Estimate Was Right
Christian Science Monitor, Sep 23, 2010
Gulf Spill May Have Been Bigger Than Feds Estimated
Science News, Sep 23, 2010
Degraded Oil Coats Gulf Seafloor
LiveScience, Sep 21, 2010
Science in Action: Saving Energy
BBC World Service, Sep 3, 2010
What Saves More Energy?
CNN Money, Sep 2, 2010
The Energy World Is Changing
PennWell, Aug 29, 2010
by Roger N. Anderson
More Than 4 Million Barrels of Oil Entered Gulf
New Scientist, Aug 26, 2010
Waste to Energy: China Leads
Waste Management World, Aug 24, 2010
by Nickolas Themelis and Zhixiao Zhang
People Habitually Underestimate Their Energy Use
The Economist, Aug 23, 2010
Delusions Abound on Saving Energy
New York Times, Aug 18, 2010
Saving Energy: What Actually Works
Green Tech, Aug 18, 2010
Missing the Chance for Big Energy Savings
National Geographic News, Aug 18, 2010
Fighting Fallacies About Energy Efficiency
New Scientist, Aug 17, 2010
Green and Clueless
Newsweek, Aug 17, 2010
Americans' Sense of Energy Savings? Small Change.
The Daily Climate, Aug 16, 2010
Scrubbing the Skies
National Geographic, Aug 1, 2010
Exploring the Geology of Gulf Oil
NPR Talk of the Nation, Jul 23, 2010
The Gulf: What's Next?
WHYY, Jul 22, 2010
How Will a Hurricane Affect the Gulf Oil Spill?
Scientific American, Jul 15, 2010
How a Rare Mix of Geology Created Riches, and Danger
Washington Post, Jul 13, 2010
How to Kill a Well
Science, Jul 2, 2010
Emerging Explorer: Zoltan Takacs, Herpetologist and Toxinologist
National Geographic, Jun 30, 2010
Turning Killers Into Cures
ABC 7 News, Jun 24, 2010
Former Earth Institute Fellow Zoltan Takac
Imagining the Unimaginable
OECD Insights, Jun 17, 2010
by John Mutter
Gulf Spill's Environmental Impact, in Three Dimensions
Wall Street Journal, Jun 12, 2010
Feds May Have Low-Balled Oil-Spill Rate
NBC Nightly News, Jun 10, 2010
BP Pins Hopes on Relief Wells to Stop Gulf Oil Spill
Scientific American, Jun 9, 2010
The Spill, the Scandal and the President
Rolling Stone, Jun 8, 2010
What the Spill Will Kill
Newsweek, Jun 6, 2010
Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill
New York Times, May 30, 2010
We Have No Idea Where Deep-Water Oil Is Drifting
CNN.com, May 28, 2010
by Andreas Thurnherr
Infrared Images of Oil Spill Show Vast Extent
CBS Evening News, May 28, 2010
The Measure of a Disaster
New York Times, May 23, 2010
Oil Spill a Catastrophe Worse Than Previously Thought
ABC World News, May 20, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Believed
NPR, May 14, 2010
Scientists Press BP to Release Film of Oil Leak
The Guardian, May 13, 2010
CO2 Storage Potential in New York Area Rocks
ClimateWire, Jan 4, 2010
Iceland's New Carbon Storage Project
Earth & Sky, Dec 28, 2009
A Material to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Technology Review, Dec 21, 2009
How Rocks Capture Carbon Dioxide
Technology Review, Nov 21, 2009
Machine Trees
The Eye, Oct 14, 2009
Pulling CO2 From the Air: Promising Idea, Big Price Tag
environment360, Oct 9, 2009
Stone Savior
National Geographic Adventure, Oct 1, 2009
Combating Climate Change by Storing CO2 Underground
PRI's The World, Sep 30, 2009
Another Way of Getting Rid of CO2
The Economist, Sep 7, 2009
6 Bright Ideas for Future Energy
Popular Science, Jul 1, 2009
Scrubbing CO2 With Synthetic Trees
New York Times blogs, Jul 1, 2009
'Synthetic Tree' Aims to Catch Carbon in Air
CNN, Jun 22, 2009
Africa Weather Network Launched
UN News Centre, Jun 18, 2009
Sucking It Up
Nature, Apr 30, 2009
Can America Afford to 'Go Green'?
ABC World News, Apr 22, 2009
New York Touts Plan to Lock Away CO2
Agence France-Presse, Apr 21, 2009
Engineers Design Fake 'Trees' to Pull in CO2
MSNBC, Apr 16, 2009
The Rock That Ate CO2
Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, Mar 19, 2009
CO2 -Eating Rocks
Living On Earth, Mar 13, 2009
Latest (And Hardest) Tool for Battling Climate Change
Discover, Mar 10, 2009
Maps Show Rocks Ideal for Sequestering Carbon
New York Times, Mar 9, 2009
Scrubbing the Skies
The Economist, Mar 7, 2009
Vote the Rock
Mother Jones, Mar 6, 2009
Scientists Map U.S. Rocks That Soak Up CO2
Reuters, Mar 6, 2009
Bamboo Bikes to Get Africa Moving
Mother Nature Network, Mar 3, 2009
The Rock That Ate CO2
OnEarth, Mar 1, 2009
Toward a Clean Energy Future
The Observer, Feb 16, 2009
Steve Cohen's Blog
Some Rocks Can Clean Up CO2
Medill Reports, Feb 4, 2009
Can Technology Clear the Air?
New Scientist, Jan 7, 2009
Mobiles Give Africa's Farmers a Chance
The Guardian, Jan 4, 2009
Treating Patients With Cell Phones
Fortune, Dec 30, 2008
Three Rules for Technological Fixes
Nature, Dec 17, 2008
Cheap Transport on Two Wheels
The Economist, Nov 27, 2008
Eating Carbon
The Economist, Nov 13, 2008
Carbon-Capturing Rocks
Technology Review, Nov 4, 2008
Iceland Finds New Ways to Trap Carbon
InterPress News Service, Oct 9, 2008
Cell Phones Transform Africa's Development
All Africa, Sep 18, 2008
Lighting Up Africa Through Innovation
Business Week, Sep 11, 2008
Top ten eco innovations for a better planet
Plenty Magazine, Aug 1, 2008
Tucson firm's 'synthetic trees' could help clean air
Tucson Citizen, Jul 31, 2008
Scientists Pursue CO2 Storage in the Ocean Floor
NPR Talk of the Nation, Jul 25, 2008
Deep-Sea Carbon Sequestration
NPR Science Friday, Jul 25, 2008
Bamboo bikes have benefits
San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 4, 2008
Mopping Up the CO2 Deluge
TIME, Jul 3, 2008
Capturing Carbon
PBS, Jul 2, 2008
Turning CO2 to plastics and dry ice
Business Green, Jun 2, 2008
Hopes to usher in a revolution in affordable lighting
Economic Times (India), Jun 1, 2008
Could US Scientist?s ?CO2 Catcher? Help to Slow Global Warming?
The Guardian (London), May 31, 2008
Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising Alarms on Climate Change
New York Times, Apr 23, 2008
Technological Keys to Climate Protection
Scientific American, Apr 1, 2008
A Solar Grand Plan
Scientific American online, Jan 1, 2008
Remove CO2 From Air? Experts Working on It
MSNBC, Nov 20, 2007
Giving Climate Change a Kick
ScienceNOW, Nov 9, 2007
Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'
BBC, Sep 10, 2007
Scientists Attempt to Roll Back Emissions
The Guardian, Jul 30, 2007
From Sturdy Bamboo, a New Way to Pedal
The Seattle Times, Jun 23, 2007
Experimenting With Carbon Sequestration
National Public Radio, Jun 1, 2007
New Device Vacuums Away Carbon Dioxide
LiveScience, May 1, 2007
Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough
Newsweek, Apr 16, 2007
How to Cool a Planet (Maybe)
New York Times, Jun 27, 2006
Iceland Set to Capture Carbon in its Rocks
Associated Press, Apr 21, 2006
How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet
Popular Science, Aug 1, 2005
Needling Out the Arsenic Epidemic
Geotimes, May 1, 2005