News

2023
link to The Bakersfield Californian article

Study on oilfield buffers IDs surprising tradeoffs

John Cox

The Bakersfield Californian

oil pump near houses

Keeping California’s oil in the ground will improve health but affect jobs

Harrison Tasoff

The Current

link to blog on Connecting the Dots With Mobile Money

Connecting the dots with mobile money: How digital finance can foster a clean energy transition in Ghana

Heather Lahr and team

BRAC Institute of Governance and Development

emlab logo over wildflowers

emLab May 2023 newsletter

emlab logo over carrizo plains superbloom

emLab April 2023 newsletter

fire at night

Reducing air pollution: Evidence from payments to reduce crop burning in India

Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, & Rohini Pande

VoxDev

emlab logo over tulips

emLab March 2023 newsletter

remote sensing imagery

Expanding the usability of remote sensing data in development

Patrick Behrer

World Bank Blogs

tamma carleton presenting

Heard on Campus: Combining machine learning and satellite images

Sam Sholtis

Penn State News

emLab logo over ocean at sunset

emLab February 2023 newsletter

emlab logo over snowcapped mountains

emLab January 2023 newsletter

shark with dark background

Researchers use machine learning to map where sharks face the most risk from longline fishing

Harrison Tasoff

The Current

Skyline of Los Angeles

Does cap and trade exacerbate environmental injustice in California?, with Danae Hernández-Cortés

Daniel Raimi, Elizabeth Wason, & Danae Hernández-Cortés

Resources Radio

2022
Topics, trends and case studies come to life on the workshop’s ideas board

Environmental issues and societal challenges

Harrison Tasoff

The Current

Solar panel farm

California is awash in renewable energy — except when it’s most needed

Erica Werner

The Washington Post

aerial of forest with half cut down

Zero-deforestation commitments ‘fundamentally limited’ in tackling deforestation, study argues

Sean Mowbray

Mongabay