Technology

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