By Joseph Conway During the summer of 2019, Pranav Singh, a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, interned in Hanoi, Vietnam for the Adapting Agr...
A new study demonstrates for the first time that subseasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict outbreaks of dengue fever by estimating mosquito abundance. Climate models a...
With the peak of the hurricane season coming up and COVID-19 abundant in many hurricane-prone areas, the United States is poised to experience the collision of two major disasters. According to a...
https://iri.columbia.edu/news/study-quantifies-potential-covid-19-spread-from-hurricane-evacuation/
New system infuses 'R0' models with climate information to help public health agencies forecast places and times when environmental conditions might enhance transmission of dengue, Zika and other...
Adapted from a news story by Columbia World Projects. Scientists and other experts from the Adapting Agriculture to Climate Today, for Tomorrow (ACToday) Project, joined former New York Times jou...
https://iri.columbia.edu/news/actoday-experts-take-part-in-panel-on-climate-and-food-security/
Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to new research by scientists at C...
https://iri.columbia.edu/news/stealth-transmission-fuels-fast-spread-of-coronavirus-outbreak/
John Furlow, Deputy Director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, gives a virtual tour of IRI’s desert locust maproom, originally developed in collaboration with the...
https://iri.columbia.edu/news/tools-for-desert-locust-early-warning-and-control/
A range of IRI’s areas of expertise will be represented at this year’s annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Below is the schedule of IRI’s posters and presentations in s...
Scientists at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and other institutions caution that current practices in international development are not making use of the best availa...
https://iri.columbia.edu/news/the-use-and-misuse-of-climate-change-projections-in-development/
A range of IRI’s areas of expertise will be represented at this year’s annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Below is the schedule of IRI’s posters and presentations in s...
https://iri.columbia.edu/news/iri-agu-schedule-of-events-2018/