Archive: Scholarship
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Multiple crises halt progress as 9 out of 10 countries fall backwards in human development, UNDP report warns
The world must jolt itself out of its global paralysis to secure the future of people and planet by re-booting its development…
September 8, 2022
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Trickle-down climate risk regulation
In the US, the primary regulators of national and community banks are narrowly zeroing in on risks posed to the largest banks—those with over $100 billion in total consolidated…
September 1, 2022
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Structure of propagating high-stress fronts in a shear-thickening suspension
These results elucidate the complex structures associated with shear thickening and show that nonaffine flow, concentration fluctuations, and fluid migration are integral to the…
August 1, 2022
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Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming
This study clarifies the need for comprehensive CO2 and non-CO2 mitigation approaches to address both near-term and long-term warming. Pairing decarbonization with mitigation…
May 23, 2022
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Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk
Climate and land use change will produce novel opportunities for viral sharing among previously geographically-isolated species of wildlife. In some cases, this will facilitate…
April 28, 2022
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A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up
The yearly cycles in vegetation greenness are among the most important drivers of ecosystem processes. Predictive models for the timing of vegetation greenup and senescence are…
April 2, 2022
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Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers
These results provide a new line of genetic evidence in support of hypotheses that have emerged from archaeological analyses but remain contested, suggesting increasing…
February 23, 2022
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Buying time for a tough transition
Dr. John McNeill, a member of GEI's Faculty Advisory Committee, searches for ways to ease the transition to a sustainable global economy in this 2021. …
December 9, 2021
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The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch
In this 2021 article, Dr. John McNeill affirms that human activities have caused a "Great Acceleration" of changes to earth systems, characterizing a new epoch, the. …
November 15, 2021
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Adaptive ontogenetic shifts in larval responses to environmental cues
This paper by Faculty Advisory Committee member Dr. Martha Weiss reveals how insects respond to external cues, such as light and gravity, to respond to the environment correctly…
October 8, 2021