Fight Entropy

Fight Entropy's a bit quiet right now given our general end-of-the-year schedules, so today we're calling attention to a few of our ...

I saw this BBC video from Planet Earth on a flight to Asia. Very startling.

The results of this paper are not very surprising, but what is surprising is that it was published in Nature Climate Change.  This is not...

Geoff Johnston , a doctoral candidate at Columbia's PhD in Sustainable Development , is on the team behind this recent study in PNAS....

The Annual Reviews have come out with a new journal (a few issues old) that will be extremely useful resource for many FE readers:  Annua...

My colleagues and I have been pushing the idea that ENSO forecasts should be broadly integrated into economic, security and social policie...

People frequently ask "What is sustainable development?"  That's a hard question to answer well at a cocktail party.  But the ...

1) Lucky iron fish as cheap health interventions 2) Brinicles 3) Allowing network plasticity increases cooperation (PNAS) [another Mech...

We had an excellent session at AGU last week , thanks to everyone who contributed. Here's a video of the talks, which are succinct, inte...

Two articles came out in PNAS Environmental Sciences this week estimating the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster ( Yasunari et al...

The footprint of sustainability science in terms of traditional scientific disciplines. (A) The percent distribution in terms of ISI disc...

Support for climate policy and societal action are linked to perceptions about scientific agreement Ding Ding, Edward W. Maibach, Xiaoquan ...

1) The NYTimes' Wedding section is not a represenative sample of the population 2) Stanford's most popular CS courses online, for ...

A new paper  finds evidence to support the "rapacity" or "prize" mechanism as an important factor driving civil conflict...

Here's a fun 2006 QJE paper that recently ran into. I especially like that they authors made a free down-loadable poster to go along wi...

Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus Abstract: ...

I recently "discovered" a great podcast: Sense and Sustainability .  Impressively, it's run by Jisung Park, a PhD student at H...

1)  Madden Julian Conversation : A blog by a small group of climate scientists about the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the DYNAMO field camp...

At MIT we used to joke that the earth science department turned on the "weather machine"  on the days when prospective students we...

1) Molecular genetics and economics (JEP, open access) 2) The case for a progressive tax (also JEP) 3) The power of austism 4) Every t...