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Columbia Researchers Develop Interactive Map of NYC's Energy Use

Earth Institute Develops Interactive Map of NYC’s Energy Use

A new interactive, color-coded map created by a team at Columbia’s engineering school allows viewers to pinpoint and compare estimated energy usage, building lot by building lot, throughout New York City.

The researchers, working under professor Vijay Modi, hope the new map will encourage city planners and building owners to seek more efficient ways to produce and use energy by using cogeneration, conservation and alternative energy systems.

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Lamont-Doherty Study Finds Oceans May Be Growing More Acidic at Unprecedented Rate

James Zachos, a paleoceanographer at University of California, Santa Cruz, with a core of sediment from some 56 million years ago. (Image credit: Ira Block/National Geographic)

A new Columbia study suggests the world’s oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years.

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New Study Identifies Ways to Slow Global Warming

Eliminating leaks from energy-producing facilities would remove large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane from the air. Here, natural gas explodes from a pipe in Middletown, CT, January 2010 (Image credit: U.S. Chemical Safety Board)

A study by an international team of scientists says that relatively cheap, simple measures to cut two common pollutants could substantially reduce global warming.

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