Strategies for Safe Drinking Water: Ensuring Lead-Free Taps for All
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by Adrienne Day
6d ago
On World Water Day, Columbia researchers explore the best options for replacing America's aging pipes ..read more
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Finishing the Coastal Service Run
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by Mike Steckler
3w ago
Traveling by boat, we are finishing our data collection and equipment servicing in coastal Bangladesh.  We have GNSS (GPS) instruments to measure the subsidence below them, and RSET-MH to measure compaction/subsidence above a deep rod. On this trip the seven of us are also sampling the upper meters of sediments using an auger, collecting 100-150 sediment samples.   ..read more
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Back to the Sundarbans
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by Mike Steckler
3w ago
As par of our trip studying land subsidence and elevation changes, we boarded a boat to travel through the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest ..read more
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Servicing My GNSS (GPS) in Bangladesh Once Again
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by Mike Steckler
1M ago
The sustainability of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta and Bangladesh depends on the balance of sea level rise, land subsidence and sedimentation. We are measuring the latter two across the coastal zone ..read more
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‘Hot Drought’ Unprecedented Across Western North America Since the 16th Century, Study Suggests
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by Columbia Climate School
2M ago
Increased heat due to human-induced climate change, not just lack of rain, is driving the continued drying of soils, say researchers ..read more
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Bottled Water Can Contain Hundreds of Thousands of Previously Uncounted Tiny Plastic Bits, Study Finds
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by Kevin Krajick
2M ago
Using a new technique, scientists have been able to identify extremely minute plastic fragments in bottled water, 10 times more than previously counted ..read more
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America’s Groundwater Crisis
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by Steve Cohen
5M ago
The future of America’s water supply is an open question. The need for an adequate water supply is not open to question ..read more
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Study Reveals Long-Distance Levers Behind U.S. Southwest Drought—and a Dry Future
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by Kevin Krajick
6M ago
The U.S. Southwest has suffered a historic drought over the past two decades. A new study elucidates the drivers, and says conditions will never return to those of the relatively wet 20th century ..read more
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Across the Ganges to southwest Bangladesh and the Sundarbans
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by Mike Steckler
1y ago
Our group of 23 American and Bangladeshi students and professors traveled from the Jamuna River to the Ganges and Gorai Rivers and then down to an embanked island on the edge of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest ..read more
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Taking my class to Bangladesh
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by Mike Steckler
1y ago
I am here in Bangladesh with the 10 students and TA in my undergraduate Sustainable Development course for a Spring Break trip to see what they have been learning about. We are accompanied by 2 Dhaka University professors, 8 Bangladeshi students, and Carol Wilson from LSU. We will be touring the country by bus and boat to learn about the environment and people of Bangladesh ..read more
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