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Dr. Shakila Merchant, CREST Deputy Director and CREST HIRES Director, joined partners from across New York State in supporting key climate resilience legislation during the Rise to Resilience Coalition’s Lobby Day in Albany, organized by the Waterfront Alliance. The advocacy effort brought
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Dr. Shakila Merchant, CUNY CREST Deputy Director and CUNY CREST HIRES Director, served as a panelist in the Earth Day 2026: Climate and Environmental Justice in New York City event hosted by the Columbia Climate School in partnership with the Greater Harlem
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Drs. Naresh Devineni and Seon-Ho Kim co-authored the research paper Water Stress and Its Sensitivity to Demands Across the Contiguous United States, published in Communications Sustainability. The study examines how variations in water demand influence water stress across the United States, offering
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Dhrijesh M. Chauhan (Environmental & Water Resources Engineering) and Niloufar Soheili (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering), doctoral researchers at the City University of New York Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CUNY CREST) Institute and United Nations University (UNU) Hub-Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations
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Professor Maria Tzortziou’s innovative project, Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems (FORTE), has been endorsed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO as an official United Nations Decade Project. This designation places FORTE among a new wave of initiatives advancing the UN Decade
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The City University of New York Remote Sensing Earth System Institute (CUNY CREST) and the United Nations University Hub at The City College of New York-Remote Sensing for Sustainable Innovation and Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS) joined celebrations for World Water Day, reflecting
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The City University of New York Remote Sensing Earth System Institute (CUNY CREST) and the United Nations University Hub at The City College of New York-Remote Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (UNU-Hub at CCNY R-SIRUS) participated in the G77
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NEW YORK, NY- Professor Kaveh Madani, Director of the UNU-INWEH and Research Professor at the City University of New York Remote Sensing Earth System Institute (CUNY CREST) has been named the 2026 laureate of the Stockholm Water Prize, one of the world’s
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In a new opinion article published in Nature Water, Dr. Kaveh Madani, Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and a CUNY CREST Institute affiliate and Dr. Karin Sjöstrand, Deputy Executive Director of Operations of the
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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), a high-level Water Policy Roundtable was convened at United Nations Headquarters in New York to launch the flagship report on Global Water
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