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Jun
24th
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Audio slideshow on Index insurance

Index insurance for development and disaster management from IRI Video Pages on Vimeo.

This is our latest audio slideshow, which Jason and I produced in record time for…
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Jun
16th
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Climate information hot topic in World Disasters Report The latest World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies argues that disaster-relief agencies need to shift focus from expensive response…
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Climate information seen as key in new Early Warning, Early Action report The latest World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies argues that disaster-relief agencies need to shift focus from expensive response operations…
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Jun
3rd
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Climate training for health professionals We kicked off the second annual Summer Institute this week. Twelve public-health professionals and climate scientists from ten countries are visiting the Lamont campus, where the International…
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Training public health decision makers Starting this week, 12 public-health professionals and climate scientists from ten countries are visiting Columbia University’s Lamont campus, where the International Research Institute for Climate…
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AMNH biobulletin on peatland fires The Science Bulletins crew at the American Museum of Natural History has created brief but excellent feature about the work the International Research Institute for Climate and Society is…
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May
28th
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Nobel Laureate Rajendra Pachauri new IRI Board Chairman img_3497Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, has agreed to serve as the…
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May
27th
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Nobel Laureate Rajendra Pachauri new IRI Board Chairman Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, has agreed to serve as the next board…
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May
11th
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visual communication + science

I have been asked to give a brownbag seminar on using visuals to communicate science at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Should make for an interesting discussion….
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May
10th
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more film sticks

some of my favorite photographs came into being because of mechanical glitches

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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May
4th
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And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
— “The Burial of the Dead,” from The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot (via poetry)
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Apr
30th
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Betting on the Rains Rising global food prices and favorable rainfall patterns in recent decades have allowed farmers in South America’s Southern Cone region to grow crops on formerly marginal lands. But if climate…
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Apr
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Apr
3rd
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Photherapy Our Mongolian friend, Byamba, who is currently studying in Vienna, recently wrote us to say she visits our image gallery often, especially when she misses her friends and family in Ulaanbaatar….
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