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What is the climate innovation gap?
Are we investing enough resources in science and climate research? Over the last decade, federal spending on research and development as a percentage of our country’s GDP has been declining. Peter deMenocal, director of Columbia University’s Center for Climate and Life, argues that the shortfall is creating an innovation gap that could impact the security of our food, water, and shelter.
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High-tech farming, fossil data and fish, nuclear waste, and a space shuttle mission story.
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A lost colony, hope for the blind, what our devices reveal about us and a shared workspace