It was on an average day at MIT, sitting in a class about the Amazon rainforest his freshman year of college, that Solomon Hsiang was first struck by the intricate relationship between people and the ...

A new climate study published in Nature points to a steep decline in global crop yields over the coming decades, and puts the U.S. farm belt directly in the crosshairs. In a recent interview with CNN, ...

The impacts of a hurricane or tropical cyclone persist long after its initial aftermath, according to a recent study by environmental economist and UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Rachel Young and ...

Stanford University Professor Solomon Hsiang joins FOX Weather Meteorologist Ian Oliver to talk about a new study revealing the hidden death toll from tropical cyclones. Researchers found years of ...

A new report published August 24 by Nature magazine claims “global climate is a major factor in organized patterns of violence” around the world. The report’s author, Solomon Hsiang of Columbia ...

There remains, however, the question of why. Coauthor Solomon Hsiang from the University of California, Berkeley, suggested that the changing availability of resources like water or crops could ...