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Nov

2013

Greg Asner: Ecology from the Air - TED talk

By Carnegie HQ

Greg Asner: Ecology from the Air: TED talk What are our forests really made of? From the air, ecologist Greg Asner uses a spectrometer and high-powered lasers to map nature in meticulous ...

Oct

2013

Gold Mining Ravages Perú

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —For the first time, researchers have been able to map the true extent of gold mining in the biologically diverse region of Madre De Dios in the Peruvian Amazon. The team combined ...

Oct

2013

Times-Herald Interview with Greg Asner About the Ecological Crisis in the Amazon

By Carnegie HQ

Sep

2013

Climate change: fast out of the gate, slow to the finish

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — A great deal of research has focused on the amount of global warming resulting from increased greenhouse gas concentrations. But there has been relatively little study of the pace ...

Jul

2013

Is the planet warming faster than we thought?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC—Researchers reviewed the likelihood of continued changes to the terrestrial climate, including an analysis of a collection of 27 climate models. If emissions of heat-trapping gases ...

Jul

2013

How can we accurately map and monitor carbon stocks?

By Carnegie HQ

Watch the Carnegie Airborne Observatory make the world's highest resolution carbon map of a country (Panama) in less than one minut Washington, DC—A team of researchers has for the first time mapped ...

Jul

2013

80% of Malaysian Borneo Degraded by Logging

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC—A study published in the July 17, issue of the journal PLOS ONE found that more than 80% of tropical forests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging. The Malaysian ...

Jul

2013

Carnegie’s Chris Field Receives Max Planck Research Prize

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.--Christopher Field, the founding director of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology has been awarded one of Germany’s most prestigious prizes, the Max Planck Research Prize with ...

Jun

2013

Major Changes Needed For Coral Reef Survival

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. —To prevent coral reefs around the world from dying off, deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are required, says a new study from Carnegie’s Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira. They ...

Jun

2013

Carnegie’s Chris Field Elected to Harvard Board of Overseers

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.--Christopher Field, the founding director of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology, has been elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers. Field, who received his bachelors in biology ...

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