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Robot Sailboats Will Spend Five Years Measuring Carbon in the Southern Ocean
Led by researchers at NOAA and Columbia University, the Constraining Ocean Carbon with Optimized Observing (COCO2) project will use uncrewed surface vehicles to reduce uncertainty in estimates of the ocean carbon sink.
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A Career Spent Collecting Earth’s Seismic Clues
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New Report: Ocean Carbon Removal Shows Promise, But Big Questions Remain
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Empowering the Next Generation of Climate Leaders in the Green Mountains
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This Stanley Park Fellow Is Studying Climate Finance To Help Guide Chile’s Energy Transition
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Mining is Essential. It Doesn’t Have to be Wasteful.
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Europe’s Earliest Glacier Loss Day in Years Signals a Reckoning for the Alps
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A New Tool for Matching Water Solutions to Community Needs
Columbia Climate School is bringing bold ideas, leading experts, and groundbreaking research to Climate Week NYC. Explore our events, stories, and updates as we help shape the conversation on climate action across New York City.
Education & Community
Interactives & Explainers
Upcoming Events
- Tuesday, September 29, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Where: Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027 Description: Arabic medical treatises of the tenth century explained both endemic and epidemic diseases in environmental terms. Physicians such as Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Majūsī, Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, and al-Masīḥī described various kinds of corruption of air and water, the risks these posed […]
- Monday, September 28, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Peter Lindquist, UW-Madison, presents: Dehydration and deformation of subducted oceanic crust in ancient and modern subduction zones The environment in which deep slow slip and tremor occur in subduction zones is fluid-rich and structurally and chemically complex. Fluids play a large […]
- Monday, September 28, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Where: Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Weekly seminar for Biology and Paleo Environment Division Zoom information: Meeting ID: 966 0096 9592 Passcode: 056679 Contact: Annika Gomez
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Media Highlights
- Researchers from Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and other institutions examined what could happen if New York continued its existing planting patterns. … But when it meets nitrogen oxides released by vehicles, buildings and […]
- “We expected winter heating to dominate methane emissions, but the summertime signal showed us that we need to be tracking these emissions year-round,” said co-author Róisín Commane, Associate Professor in Columbia’s Department of Earth and […]
- When Zoey Yiyuan Zhou first heard the news that the Trump administration was shuttering the embassy air quality monitoring, it struck her as a research opportunity. “It’s such a rare case to study this drawback,” […]
From a crypto-law perspective, Bitcoin’s energy footprint is increasingly a regulatory issue, not just an environmental debate. Mining operators should…