JACKIE TURNER

Tufa Dinku, the country lead for Ethiopia for Columbia World Project's Adapting Agriculture to Climate Today, for Tomorrow (ACToday), tells his story and describes the efforts of ACToday and the challenges Ethiopia faces in adapting to climate change. More on Colombia World Projects: https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/ More on ACToday: https://iri.columbia.edu/actoday/

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A glowing image resembling a futuristic hologram floats in mid-air. This is a 3D volumetric display. Using a tiny particle suspended in laser light, researchers have been able to create high resolution, colour images that take up real 3D space. Developing this technology could lead to the kind of complex, interactive displays common in science fiction. Read more at: http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01125-y And find the paper at: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature25176 24th January 2018

A NextGen Training was held at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (Earth Institute, Columbia University) in June of 2019. https://iri.columbia.edu/news/advanced-training-for-latin-american-forecasters/

Columbia World Projects’ first project, ACToday, aims to combat hunger and improve food security by increasing climate knowledge in six countries that are particularly dependent on agriculture and vulnerable to the effects of climate change and fluctuations ⁠—Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Vietnam and Guatemala. This video features John Furlow, the country lead for ACToday in Vietnam, discussing recent activities in Vietnam that advance ACToday’s objective of helping the country meet its goals on food security.

Hurricanes can be deadly to plants, people and animals caught in their paths. The idea that such destructive events could drive natural selection is controversial. Now, new research on Caribbean lizards seems to suggest that recent hurricanes have selected for certain traits. These traits could help them cope with high wind speeds and might even be advantageous enough to influence their evolution. Find out more in this Nature Video. Find the original research paper at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0352-3 25 July 2018