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Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir featured in Science Magazine

February 16, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter was featured in Science Magazine. The news article about the CEE study, entitled “The United States’s Corn Belt is making its own weather,” discusses how agriculture had a […]

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir shows intensive agriculture has impact on summer climate in Midwest United States

February 13, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Research from Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former postdoc Ross Alter shows that intensive agriculture has an impact on summer climate in the Midwestern United States. Eltahir and Alter demonstrated that there was a significant empirical association […]

How to make cities more efficient

April 26, 2016 | 2016 News Releases | ceemit

Retrofitting a small portion of buildings would have big impact on cities’ carbon emissions. Many programs encourage owners of homes and other buildings to improve their energy efficiency, sometimes offering substantial subsidies or tax incentives for […]

CEE team designs model to help devise erosion-prevention strategies

June 22, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Throughout the last few decades, large swaths of aquatic vegetation have disappeared around the world, including in the United States. In response, a team of CEE researchers has developed a model to help scientists understand how […]