To Predict How Climate Change Will Affect Disease, Researchers Must Fuse Climate Science and Biology
September 18, 2017To predict how climate change will affect disease, researchers need new statistical models that incorporate both climate factors and the climate-disease relationship, and account for uncertainties in both.
Projected precipitation increases are bad news for water quality
August 1, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyIncreased precipitation due to climate change could overload American waterways with excess nitrogen and cause mass eutrophication, especially in the Midwest and Northeast.
New model projects an increase in dust storms in the US
July 17, 2017 ・ Pooja MakhijaniBing Pu and Paul Ginoux, examine the influence of climate change on dust storms in the US.
Climate change to damage U.S. economy, increase inequality
June 29, 2017 ・ The Office of CommunicationsUnmitigated climate change could make the United States poorer and more unequal, with the poorest counties losing as much as 20 percent of their income by the end of the century.
Vecchi receives 2017 AGU Ascent Award
June 28, 2017Gabriel Vecchi, a professor of geosciences and PEI, has received a 2017 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award from the American Geophysical Union.
Rising sea levels will boost moderate floods in some areas, severe floods in others
June 8, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyA Princeton and Rutgers study suggests that sea-level rise will increase boost the occurrence of moderate flooding in cities along the southeastern coast, while areas that have little history of severe flooding are likely to experience a greater uptick in the number of severe, or even historically unprecedented, floods.
In ‘The Environmental Nexus,’ students explore the many paths to saving the planet
May 31, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyThe new course “Environmental Nexus” approaches the environmental crisis from multiple perspectives to prepare students for the future effects of the global environmental crisis .
‘A Bee, a Tree, What’s In It For Me?’ Class examines environmental policy
May 22, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyClimate change expert Michael Oppenheimer and ecologist David Wilcove teamed up for the spring course “The Environment: Science and Policy.”
Nitrogen contained in coral provides evidence of human impact on the open ocean
May 19, 2017 ・ Pooja Makhijani, Office of Communications“Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition is, perhaps, substantially less severe than has been argued,” said Daniel Sigman.
