CLIMATE, NATURAL DISASTERS
It’s Been One Year Since Wildfires Devastated Los Angeles. What Have We Learned?
In the wake of the fires, our disaster expert says that “we have the lessons we need to do better and recover better, but there is a stubbornness to learning and applying them.”
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It’s Been One Year Since Wildfires Devastated Los Angeles. What Have We Learned?
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Can Mayor Mamdani Turn Climate Action Into an Affordability Win for NYC?
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Student Spotlight: A Systems-Level Approach To Help Solve India’s Food Challenges
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Photographing Climate Change: Ice Porters on the Frozen Chadar River
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Columbia Climate School Experts on What Gives Them Hope in 2026
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Climate Action Costs More in the Global South. Here’s Why.
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SIPA Alumni Champion Wildlife Protection at Major Conference in Uzbekistan
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Science for the Planet: Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings
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Year in Review: Our Top Stories of 2025
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
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Upcoming Events
- Monday, January 26, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Frederik Simons. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea With a Fleet of Seismic Robots In the last few decades, seismologists have mapped the Earth’s interior (crust, mantle, and core) in ever increasing detail. Natural earthquakes, the sources of energy used to […]
- Thursday, January 15, 2026 9:00 AM – Sat , January 17, 2026 5:00 PM Where: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 St., New York, NY, 10024 Description: The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and the LEAP (Learning the Earth through Artificial Intelligence and Physics) NSF Science and Technology Center at Columbia University, in collaboration with Starr […]
- Wednesday, January 14, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Where: Online Event Description: Climate LIVE K12: When Waters Rise: How Flash Flood Preparedness Strengthens Communities Climate LIVE K12 is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents. About this Event In this session, we’ll examine the devastating Texas floods of July 2025, which claimed the lives of […]
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Media Highlights
- In New York City, the package would aid scientists displaced by the closure of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which was famously located upstairs from Tom’s Restaurant at Broadway and West 112th Street, […]
- Jeffrey Sachs, an American economist and a professor at Columbia University, told Al Jazeera, “The White House wants to buy out Greenlanders, not to pay for what Greenland is worth, which is way beyond what […]
- “We’re appalled,” said Michael Gerrard, an environmental lawyer who founded the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. “But not surprised.”