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From Clouds to Harvest: Trust and Decision-Making Among Northern Rajasthan’s Farmers
Feb. 6, 2025
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Written by Divyansh Chug

Prologue

In April 2024, I conducted a series of interviews with 19 farmers in Sriganganagar, a vital agricultural district in northern Rajasthan. These conversations unfolded against a backdrop of unprecedented cotton crop failure during the Kharif season due to unseasonal rain, followed by unexpectedly high wheat yields in…

Research Record: Seizing the Policy Opportunities for Health- and Equity-Improving Energy Decisions
Jan. 28, 2025
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Written by Ambreen Ali
The Big Picture

The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) along with other U.S. federal policies enacted during the Biden administration offer an opportunity to promote health and equity goals through clean energy investments, the authors note. Even with the Trump administration likely to make policy changes to IRA implementation, there…

Fill in the Blanks with Navroz Dubash
Jan. 27, 2025
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Written by Ambreen Ali

From the window in Navroz Dubash’s office on the fourth floor of Robertson Hall, there is a clear view of the eating club he frequented as an undergrad at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Dubash returned to Princeton SPIA this past fall as a professor of public and international affairs and the High Meadows…

Elke Weber awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal for outstanding contributions to experimental psychology
Jan. 15, 2025
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Written by Colton Poore, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Elke Weber, an expert on environmental decision-making, has received the 2025 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

Weber, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Energy and the Environment and professor of 

Electric vehicle transition could create unwanted air pollution hotspots in China and India
Dec. 12, 2024
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Written by Colton Poore, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

While electric vehicles have become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, new research led by Princeton University has demonstrated that refining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could create pollution hotspots near manufacturing hubs.

Focusing on China and India, the researchers found that national…

From Science to Storytelling: My summer as a science journalist with the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
Dec. 9, 2024
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Written by Bing Lin, STEP Ph.D.

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship with Inside Climate News (ICN). Over 10 weeks, I traded…

New Study Unveils the Human and Scientific Dimensions of IPCC Sea Level Rise Projections
Dec. 6, 2024
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Written by Cara Clase, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

A study led by Indiana University, Bloomington and Princeton presents an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the collaborative process that determines the IPCC’s sea level rise projections and the social dynamics shaping climate assessments.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …

Scientists Question the Use of “Tipping Point” Metaphor in Climate Change Discussions
Dec. 3, 2024
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Written by Kitta MacPherson

The concept may be confusing the public and inhibiting action, researchers say

 

A group of scientists, including researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Princeton University and Carleton University, has questioned the accuracy and utility of the metaphor “tipping point” in calling attention…

November 22nd - Navigating Uncertainty Amidst Progress
Dec. 2, 2024
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Written by Jackson Blackwell
 

This year’s COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, unfolded against a backdrop of significant global geopolitical shifts, most notably the election of former President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States. For many attendees, the conference served as a bellwether for how the global climate community would respond to new…

Case Study Reveals Connection between Flood Vulnerability and Green Spaces
Dec. 2, 2024
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Written by Cara Clase, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

Flooding is one of the most common and destructive disaster types in the United States.  As climate change intensifies, urban areas are becoming increasingly vulnerable to flooding and face an urgent need for adaptive urban planning and mitigation.  A Philadelphia-focused case