Press releases

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 ...

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 ...

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