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…
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…
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, 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
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…