Research suggests that even a small increase in long-term exposure to fine particles leads to an increase in the mortality rate of up to 8 percent.
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May 29, 2020
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May 28, 2020
More than four million people have been forced to abandon their homes and reach emergency shelters, increasing the risk of contagion.
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May 25, 2020
Sustainable development student Isabelle Seckler explains how nature taught her the most important lessons she has learned all year.
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May 22, 2020
Summertime brings hurricane season, heat waves, wildfires, and flooding. Is the U.S. prepared to deal with extreme weather at the same time as a pandemic?
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May 22, 2020
A committee has outlined what the U.S. National Science Foundation should focus on over the next decade.
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May 22, 2020
Her research as a Ph.D. student at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has yielded important information for air quality control efforts.
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May 20, 2020
Earth Institute faculty offer their encouragement and advice for the newest crop of graduates who will change the world.
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May 15, 2020
Students will make their own glacier goo, take a virtual drone flight over the ocean, and much more in these live sessions taught by Earth Institute experts.
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May 14, 2020
A new primer lays out the basics of climate science in compact form.
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May 08, 2020
A new study has identified thousands of incidents of previously rare or unprecedented extreme heat/humidity combinations in parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and North America, including in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.
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May 07, 2020
Widely considered a screen against contamination, clay layers may actually enhance arsenic leakage into some aquifers, study finds.
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May 05, 2020
What, when, and how to shoot photos of scientific fieldwork.
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May 04, 2020
Driven by changing climate, a uniquely resilient organism is taking over the Arabian Sea, disrupting food chains, fisheries, oil refineries, and water desalination plants.
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April 30, 2020Earth Institute LIVE is a virtual platform dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to you.
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April 30, 2020
In a new study, researchers have proposed a mechanism for how mega-canyons under northern Greenland’s ice sheet formed: from a series of catastrophic outburst floods that suddenly and repeatedly drained lakes of melting ice-sheet water.
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