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The USGS has put together a slick GUI that let's you browse (as if it were GoogleEarth) and download Landsat  data. The interface is de...

There are relatively few non-academic internet resources on identification and causal inference in the social sciences, especially of the...

Amir Jina and I were recently discussing the multiple literature reviews that have come out on environment and development topics lately, ...

1) A general audience-accessible explanation of why was Typhoon Haiyan so damaging 2)  Statistically derived contributions of diverse hum...

Typhoon Haiyan as seen from space, Copyright 2013 JMA/EUMETSAT Last spring Sol and I finished up the working paper version of our paper...

The "sister paper" to our recent Science article on climate and conflict has come out in Climatic Change. This new article is a t...

1) Remote sensing evidence of differing institutional history 2) Monasteries and snow leopard conservation 3) RealClimate on the Marcot...

There's a new working paper by Michael Greenstone and Kelsey Jack that's of obvious interest to FE readers: Envirodevonomics: A ...

USAID's Measure Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are an extraordinary (free) data set on maternal and child health from around t...

1) Sol's work on climate and conflict as covered by America's Finest News Source 2) Air pollution elasticity of tourism, China ed...

Mark Rosenzweig and Chris Udry have a pretty nice new working paper on the value of weather forecasts in India : Forecasting Profitabilit...

1)  Time lapse photos of the north pole this July 2)  Fungicides further implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder  (via  Yaniv Stopnitzky )...

Edward Miguel, Marshall Burke and I have a new paper quantifying the link between climate and conflict . There has already been a lot of p...

Andrew Gelman has a thought-provoking post on asking "Why?" in statistics : Consider two broad classes of inferential questions...

In this week's Nature : We calculate that the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge, because the region is pivotal to the functio...

Injection-Induced Earthquakes William L. Ellsworth Abstract: Earthquakes in unusual locations have become an important topic of discussio...

1) "Exposure of children to toxic lead, and the subsequent declines in IQ and earning potential, costs the developing world nearly $1 ...

After 5 (or 6?) rounds of revisions (a lesson to anyone thinking of writing an interdisciplinary review article...), this is finally publish...

I introduced "watercolor regression" here on FE several months ago, after some helpful discussions with Andrew Gelman and our re...

Blum Center for Developing Economies  has a now program for Global Poverty and Practice Post Doctoral Fellows . (Applications deadline = J...