Coal’s Continued Dominance of Global Industrialization Must Be Made More Vivid in Climate Change Accounting
August 21, 2014 ・ Holly P. WellesEmissions that occur over the lifetime of a fossil-fuel-burning electric generator are today routinely assigned to the year of emission ((a), blue blocks). Socolow and Davis present an alternate accounting where the same emissions are instead recorded as committed emissions…
Wild Sheep Show Benefits of Putting Up With Parasites
July 23, 2014 ・ Molly Sharlach, Office of the Dean for ResearchWater, Water – Not Everywhere: Mapping Water Trends for African Maize
July 21, 2014 ・ Molly SharlachFACULTY HONOR: Levin Elected as a Foreign Member of the Instituto Lombardo
July 17, 2014 ・ Holly P. WellesOn June 26th Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, was elected a foreign member of the Instituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Levin has been invited to attend a ceremony on October 2,…
FACULTY HONOR: Grenfell Named to Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust
July 14, 2014 ・ Igor HeifetzBryan Grenfell, the Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, has joined the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust, effective September. The Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation focused on improving human…
Study Shows Significant Increase in Antibiotic Use Across the World
July 10, 2014 ・ Wendy Plump for the Princeton Environmental InstituteGlobal use of antibiotics is surging according to Princeton University researchers who have conducted a broad assessment of antibiotic consumption around the world. The study, “Global Trends in Antibiotic Consumption, 2000-2010,” found that worldwide antibiotic use has risen a staggering…
