Salk Institute

April 26, 2019

Wired

The Plan to Grab the World's Carbon With Supercharged Plants

Joanne Chory is tackling climate change as a biologist: by engineering plants to grab much more carbon from the air than they already do.

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When Climate Disaster Strikes, Slums Are Vulnerable. Better Maps Help

A group of nonprofits are mapping informal settlements to make aid distribution, reconstruction and resilience planning easier.

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Millions of people live in unmapped regions around the globe. Here’s why it’s critically important that we help close map data gaps.

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Lessons from the Frontlines of Mental Health

CEO Dena Trujillo Reflects on Crisis Text Line’s First Ten Years