Archaeologist and anthropologist Kristina G. Douglass has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Climate, the first faculty hire for the Columbia Climate School. Douglass, whose research focuses on investigating human-environment interaction in
Once humans discovered how to tame fire, they began using it for heat, for cooking, to scare away animals and to alter their environs, especially burning areas to plant and to restore grazing land. In Madagascar, scientists and conservationists have long believed that fire is a leading cause of high landscape degradation, but an international team of researchers has found that medium to large fires on the island are similar to other tropical locations.
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Whether or not humanity rises to the challenges of a warming planet may depend on communities on the frontlines of climate change playing a larger role in the decision-making process.
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