CLIMATE, EARTH SCIENCES
July Research Roundup: Select Papers
This month, we covered the 2026 Environmental Performance Index; how gas bubbles shaped Kīlauea’s lava flow; and the Pacific’s contrasting effects on wildfires. Here are some additional studies worth noting.
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July Research Roundup: Select Papers
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Algal Blooms: A ‘Dark’ Threat to Greenland’s Cooling Capabilities
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Interactive: The Heezen–Tharp World Ocean Floor Map
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From Marie Tharp to Seabed 2030: Marine Geophysicist Vicki Ferrini on Mapping the Ocean Floor
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Pacific Ocean Pattern Helps Explain Diverging Wildfire Trends in U.S. and Australia
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From Kindergarten to College, New York Is Rethinking Climate Education
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Climate Scientist Marco Tedesco Examines What Responsible AI Could Look Like
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The Future of Climate Finance
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Media Highlights
- Robin Bell of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Michael Studinger made the discovery by combining data from ice-penetrating radar, gravity surveys, satellite imagery, laser altimetry and records from a Soviet Antarctic Expedition that unknowingly crossed […]
- Researchers at the Columbia Climate School say the early warning signs are already in place, and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center gives the event an 81 percent chance of reaching very strong intensity between October and […]
- “The tropical Pacific is already showing several classic early warning signs,” Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, an associate research scientist at the Columbia Climate School, revealed. “Subsurface ocean temperatures across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific have […]
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