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Feb

2016

Huffington Post: The California Drought's Alarming Toll On Forests

By Carnegie HQ

"If drought conditions continue or reoccur, even with temporary reprieves such as El Niño, we predict substantial future forest change," Greg Asner says in The Huffington Post. More

Feb

2016

Medium: The CAO and the "sensor revolution"

By Carnegie HQ

Planet Labs contributes an essay to Medium about Greg Asner and the Carnegie Airborne Observatory using LiDAR and satellite imagery to map the California drought, calls the CAO "a fire-fighter of a ...

Dec

2015

CBS Evening News: Nearly 1 billion trees threatened by California drought

By Carnegie HQ

CBS Evening News covers Greg Asner and the Carnegie Airborne Observatory team's work on the impact the drought has had on California's forests. The team found that 888 million trees have seen ...

Dec

2015

Tens of millions of trees in danger from California drought

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC—California’s forests are home to the planet’s oldest, tallest and most-massive trees. New research from Carnegie’s Greg Asner and his team reveals that up to 58 million large trees in ...

Dec

2015

Dan Rather Interviews Chris Field, Huffington Post

By Carnegie HQ

Dan Rather interveiws Chris Field, director of Global Ecology, about climate change. The interview was published by the Huffington Post.

Dec

2015

Science covers Carnegie and AAAS co-hosted 50 Years of Climate Change event

By Carnegie HQ

50 years after the first U.S. president was warned about climate change, it is "the defining issue of our time," Department of Global Ecology Director Chris Field told attendees. More

Dec

2015

Mongabay: Conservationists Want to Track Biodiversity—from Space

By Carnegie HQ

Now is the perfect moment for satellites to start measuring biodiversity, Carnegie's Greg Asner tells Mongabay. “It’s the perfect storm of conditions,” he says. More

Dec

2015

WIRED: Today climate scientists don't just get mad, they take action

By Carnegie HQ

“I started out thinking that it was all about information, and if we only got the right information to the right people, then the right things would happen,” Carnegie's Ken Caldeira tells WIRED ...

Nov

2015

The Atlantic covers Ken Caldeira's work on cyclical mass extinctions

By Carnegie HQ

A pair of researchers have new evidence to support a link between cyclical comet showers and mass extinctions, including the one that they believe wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. NYU's ...

Nov

2015

Climate Central: Study sees ecological risks as solar expands

By Carnegie HQ

Solar power developers in California have been using mostly undeveloped desert lands with sensitive wildlife habitat as sites for new solar power installations. Areas that have already been developed ...

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