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Power Tool Helps Climate and Public Health Researchers Drill into Data

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Imagine having to solve a puzzle with someone who didn't speak the same language as you. That's essentially where the fields of climate and public health stand. Understanding the relationship between climate and infectious disease is extremely important, yet data from each field is collected at different time and spatial scales. Getting the data to talk requires significant number crunching and computing power--a luxury in developing countries. Enter IRI's powerful Data Library. Read the story



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Discussing Climate, Cities and Food
Last week, IRI Director Lisa Goddard took part in a discussion on climate, cities and food with other experts from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Mayor's Office for Long-Term Planning. The event, originally cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy, sparked further discussion on Twitter. See what the audience thought in this curated Storify on the Earth Institute's State of the Planet blog.


Climate Change in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities
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At a recent conference, Walter Baethgen discussed existing opportunities for climate change adaptation, especially with efforts started by first improving adaptation to current climate. The event, Climate Change: From Challenges to Opportunities, was held in Montevideo, Uruguay and was convened by former Costa Rican president Jose M. Figueres and Enrique Iglesias, the former president of the Inter-American Development Bank, now the secretary-general of the Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat. Watch the entire panel (Spanish).


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Biodiversity in Tropical Andes
The tropical Andes are probably richer in biodiversity than any comparable area on Earth. How climate change is likely to affect this fragile region is the topic of a book recently published by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. IRI researcher Daniel Ruiz Carrascal contributed to a number of chapters. English and Spanish versions available. Download them here.


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Public Health and Climate
The eighteenth edition of Climate Information for Public Health Action Newsletter is now available in English, French and Spanish. The focus of this issue: IRI’s status as a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Early Warning Systems for Malaria and other Climate Sensitive Diseases.


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Climate Services
Download the report on the 2nd International Conference on Climate Services, held in Belgium in September 2012. This annual conference of the Climate Services Partnership brought together climate information users, providers, researchers and donors to discuss opportunities to improve the development and delivery of climate services around the world.


IRI IN THE NEWS

Understanding the Shifting Politics of Climate Policy and
Sustainability Management. (Huffington Post) view

Exploran los mecanismos para abaratar el seguro agrícola. (La Nacion) view

Climate Conversations - Is acceptance of climate change adaptation an admission
that mitigation has failed? (Reuters AlertNet) view


CURRENT SEASONAL RAINFALL FORECAST

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