Press releases

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 ...

Oct

2015

AP quotes Chris Field in article on unimaginable Persian Gulf heat forecast

By Carnegie HQ

"Some of the scariest prospects from a changing clime involve conditions completely outside the range of human experience," Department of Global Ecology Director Chris Field tells the Associated ...

Oct

2015

Elephants boost tree losses in South Africa’s largest savanna reserve

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Protected areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, play a crucial role in sheltering wildlife, such as African elephants, from hunting and habitat destruction. But it’s ...

Oct

2015

L.A. Times: X-ray technology reveals California's forests are in for a radical transformation

By Carnegie HQ

The L.A. Times covers the Carnegie Airborne Observatory's assessment of California's drought: "Asner has a practiced eye for forest health, and with instruments aboard his plane that give him X-ray ...

Oct

2015

Solar Energy’s Land-Use Impact

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—With mounting vigor for combating global climate change, increasing the use of renewable energy resources such as solar, without compromising natural habitats, is a challenge to the ...

Oct

2015

To Take Earth’s Pulse, You Have to Fly High: Greg Asner in NatGeo

By Carnegie HQ

“The system produces maps that tell us more about an ecosystem in a single airborne overpass than what might be achieved in a lifetime of work on the ground,” Greg Asner tells National Geographic in ...

Sep

2015

Read Al Jazeera's Story About the Carnegie Airborne Observatory and the California Drought

By Carnegie HQ

A unique airborne observatory measures the drought stress in California at 8 million trees per hour.. .more

Sep

2015

A Wet Winter Won’t Save California, Chris Field in the NYT Opinion pages

By Carnegie HQ

"Two physical realities virtually ensure that Californians will still face drought, regardless of how this El Niño unfolds," write Department of Global Ecology Director Chris Field and Stanford's ...

Sep

2015

Ken Caldeira's Antarctic melting research in The New Yorker

By Carnegie HQ

"It’s true that right now our fossil-fuel resources remain vast; but it’s also true that, if we keep burning through them at current rates, they’ll be gone in less time than it took for the Roman ...

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