Wintertime outbreaks of COVID-19 have been largely driven by whether people adhere to control measures such as mask wearing and social distancing, according to a study by researchers affiliated with the Climate Change and Infectious Disease initiative based in Princeton University s High Meadows Environmental Institute. Climate and a lack of population immunity are playing smaller roles during the pandemic phase of the virus, but will become more impactful as infections slow.
Morgan Kelly, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Feb. 3, 2021 4:59 p.m.
Scientists and research based at Princeton University played a critical role in a new national report that investigates the technology, policy and societal dimensions of accelerating decarbonization in the United States.
On Feb. 2, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published the interactive report, “Accelerating Decarbonization of the U.S. Energy System,” which provides a technical blueprint and policy manual for the first decade of a wholesale transformation of the American economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Princeton scientists and research played a critical role in a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that investigates the technology, policy and societal dimensions of accelerating decarbonization in the United States.
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Tina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist and academic. She covers the annual U.N. climate negotiations and domestic energy policy. She is Barron Visiting Professor at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Her writing has been published in Grist.org,
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IMAGE: Soil on a chip experiments conducted by Princeton researchers mimic the interactions between soils, carbon compounds and soil bacteria, producing new evidence that large carbon molecules can potentially escape the. view more
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Much of the earth s carbon is trapped in soil, and scientists have assumed that potential climate-warming compounds would safely stay there for centuries. But new research from Princeton University shows that carbon molecules can potentially escape the soil much faster than previously thought. The findings suggest a key role for some types of soil bacteria, which can produce enzymes that break down large carbon-based molecules and allow carbon dioxide to escape into the air.