Missing climate risks
Op ed in New York Times highlights missing climate risks discussed in policy paper co-authored by Ruth DeFries
Amrita Neelakantan on resettlement from Kanha Tiger Reserve
Former PhD student Amrita Neelakantan summarizes her work on resettlement from Kanha Tiger Reserve in central India
SMOKE tool for Indonesian fires
The Conversation reports on our SMOKE policy tool for reducing health impacts from Indonesian fires
Media Lab fell
Sarika Khanwilkar was selected as a 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow. Congrats!
Op-ed on Amazon deforestation
Ruth DeFries supports Brazilian colleagues monitoring Amazon deforestation
Health impacts from fires in SE Asia
A new tool to reduce health impacts from fires in Southeast Asia from Ruth DeFries, Miriam Marlier, and interdisciplinary team
climate sensitivity of millets
Post-doc Kyle Davis and Ruth DeFries publish on climate sensitivity of cereal production in India. Follow press coverage here.
Amrita and Sarika slow fashion and tigers
Amrita and Sarika take on slow fashion and tigers in Brooklyn
Benjamin Clark
Graduating PhD student Benjamin Clark receives the first Donald J. Melnick award in E3B for his dissertation “Crops, Canopies, and Waiting for Rain: Water for Small-plot Agriculture in the Tropics.”
Nat Geo award
PhD students Pooja Choksi, Sarika Khanwilkar, and Vijay Ramesh receive a research and exploration grant from National Geographic for their project “Project Dhvani: Eavesdropping on Biodiversity for Ecological and Social Benefits (Dhvani is the Sanskrit word for sound)”.
