Robert Paarlberg Discusses Methane at San Francisco Climate Week
Paarlberg focuses on the importance of productivity gains in livestock management for reducing methane emissions.
Tue, Jun 10, 2025
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How hot is too hot?
Teaming up with grassroots organizers in India, the Salata Institute's Climate Adaptation in South Asia cluster is collecting data to help workers adapt to dangerous spikes in heat.
Mon, May 5, 2025
Fishers on the Gulf of Guinea: Climate, and the Income Diversification Imperative
Does climate adaptation in Africa require changing a traditional way of life? Will it require shifting to alternative sources of livelihood? If so, what should be the role of governments in promoting such a shift?
This new Salata Institute white paper addresses these questions by considering traditional fishing communities in West Africa threatened by ocean warming.
Thu, May 1, 2025
Why we are rescuing government environmental data
Volunteers are preserving tools and data that the Trump administration is discarding, but we are no replacement for the centralized management and distribution of a public good.
Wed, Apr 30, 2025
Research Brief: Satellite Monitoring of Annual U.S. Landfill Methane Emissions
The study on which the brief is based uses satellite observations of atmospheric methane concentrations to estimate methane emissions from four large landfills in the southeastern United States over the period 2019–2023. The brief was released by the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, supported by the Salata Institute.
Tue, Apr 22, 2025
How Brazil’s “China cows” lower methane emissions
Because Brazilian cattle spend longer reaching market weight than cows in the U.S., they belch out more than three times as much methane for every pound of meat. Restoring degraded pastures is helping.
Mon, Apr 14, 2025
New investments in climate research target carbon pollution from buildings and vehicles
Funded by the Salata Institute, Harvard experts join forces to generate climate solutions.
Tue, Apr 8, 2025
Field Notes from India: Climate Adaptation from the Ground Up
"Creative and important innovations to address climate shocks are taking place in the field, far from government offices and conference halls," writes James Salzman of Harvard Law School about a recent trip he took with Harvard faculty to visit Salata Institute-funded research in India. "My time in Ahmedabad brought home the central lesson that people are problem solvers. The Climate Educators and Entrepreneurs will not cure climate change, of course, but these young women provide an important window into the creative local resilience strategies being developed out of necessity around the globe."
Tue, Apr 1, 2025
Caroline Buckee explains her team's extreme-heat research in India
Harvard researchers sponsored by the Salata Institute are using environmental sensors and wearable devices to track the health impacts of extreme heat on women working in India's informal sector. Caroline Buckee, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains.
Thu, Mar 27, 2025
The impacts of heat on lives and livelihoods are far-reaching but poorly understood
With more data on the wide-ranging effects of heat, we can start to identify cost-effective and culturally relevant interventions for adaptation.
Fri, Mar 14, 2025
Harvard professors simulate and study Phoenix heat emergency
Extreme heat is the top weather-related killer in the United States. Harvard Medical School faculty are testing a new simulation exercise to help cities prepare for a changing climate.
Wed, Mar 12, 2025
Policy for Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock
Robert Paarlberg, a research affiliate of the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, published commentary on the website of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, titled “Methane Reduction in Livestock: Confronting the North-South Gap.”
Fri, Mar 7, 2025