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'Trust but Verify' Should be a Motto of Paris Climate Talks

November 30, 2015

[The Christian Science Monitor ] Joseph Aldy: The United States, like many other countries, has been participating in negotiations in the lead-up to the United Nations' conference on climate change in Paris. The goal is to craft a policy framework that is going to engage all countries in combating global warming and establish institutions that can continue to spur more ambitious efforts over time.

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New Publications!

November 30, 2015

After a lot of hard years in the lab, and in close collaboration with Ines Pereira’s group at the ITQB in Portugal, we are happy to report a pair of papers describing 1) the role of DsrC in the operation of microbial sulfate reduction, and 2) the isotopic fractionation accompanying DsrAB are now in press! See "Recent Publications" on the far right column or here for details!

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Paris Climate Summit Could Bring Historic Deal on Emissions, but Likely Won't Halt Climate Change

November 29, 2015

[Los Angeles Times ]...Robert Stavins, a Harvard economist who studies international climate policy and negotiations, wrote on his blog this month that the earlier distinction between developed and developing countries "made progress on climate change impossible, because growth in emissions since the protocol came into force in 2005 is entirely in the large developing countries — China, India, Brazil, Korea, South Africa, Mexico and Indonesia."

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The steep cost of incarceration on women of color

The steep cost of incarceration on women of color

November 29, 2015

CNN Money | Bruce Western draws attention to "how profoundly gendered the whole incarceration story is," the ways in which the financial and caretaking burdens of incarceration fall heavily on females when loved ones are incarcerated.