Press releases

Jul

2017

Bornean orangutans’ canopy movements flag conservation targets

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Bornean orangutans living in forests impacted by human commerce seek areas of denser canopy enclosure, taller trees, and sections with trees of uniform height, according to new ...

Jun

2017

Carnegie Science Global Ecology collaborator wins Kyoto Prize

By Carnegie HQ

The 2017 Kyoto Prize in the Basic Sciences has been awarded to Graham Farquhar, a distinguished professor at The Australian National University and a long-time collaborator of Carnegie scientists in ...

Jun

2017

“Full toolbox” needed to solve the climate change problem

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —Solving the climate change problem means transitioning to an energy system that emits little or no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. According to new work from a team of experts ...

Jun

2017

Carnegie’s Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez Announced Pew Latin American Fellow

By Carnegie HQ

Pew announced the 2017 classes of biomedical scholars, Latin American fellows, and Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research today. Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez of the Department of Plant Biology Dinneny ...

Jun

2017

Ken Caldeira, Carnegie climate scientist, about pulling out of the Paris climate agreement

By Carnegie HQ

“It is times like this, when public funding for important science is buffeted by the gale-force winds of political controversy, that I feel extremely fortunate to be a scientist at the Carnegie ...

May

2017

Plant Biology’s Jia-Ying Zhu Receives Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C .--Plant Biology postdoctoral research associate since 2012, Jia-Ying Zhu was awarded the sixth PIE award for her creativity, productivity, being a great team player in research, “and ...

May

2017

How Satellite Data Led to a Breakthrough for Lake Erie Toxic Algal Blooms

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—With the growing frequency and magnitude of toxic freshwater algal blooms becoming an increasingly worrisome public health concern, Carnegie scientists Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak, ...

Apr

2017

Plants have been helping to offset climate change, but now it’s up to us

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —Plants are currently removing more CO 2 from the air than they did 200 years ago, according to new work from Carnegie’s Joe Berry and led by J. Elliott Campbell of UC Merced. The team ...

Jan

2017

High-tech maps of tropical forest diversity identify new conservation targets

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —New remote sensing maps of the forest canopy in Peru test the strength of current forest protections and identify new regions for conservation effort, according to a report led by ...

Jan

2017

Global Ecology’s Mary Whelan Receives Fifth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—Global Ecology NSF Fellow Mary Whelan has been honored with Carnegie’s fifth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award. These prizes are made through nominations from the ...

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