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Unexpected Climate Feedback Links Antarctic Ice Sheet With Reduced Carbon Uptake
New study reveals surprising link between West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) retreat and algae growth over the past 500,000 years.
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Can Carbon Markets Offset the Emissions We Can’t Eliminate?
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Unexpected Climate Feedback Links Antarctic Ice Sheet With Reduced Carbon Uptake
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Greenland Ice Cap Vanished Just 7,000 Years Ago
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Sea Levels Are Rising—But in Greenland, They Will Fall
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Human Activity Is Driving Rapid Sinking of World’s River Deltas
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Remembering World-Renowned Soil Scientist, Agriculture and Food Security Center Director Pedro Sanchez
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Get Ready for Smokier Air: Record 2023 Wildfire Smoke Marks Long-Term Shift in North American Air Quality
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New Policies, Same Inequalities for Agricultural Workers in Mexico
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TRACX Program Connects Educators Worldwide with Ocean Science Research
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, February 9, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Craig Martin. Paleogeography of the southern Eurasian margin in the lead-up to the India-Eurasia collision At the onset of the India-Eurasia collision the Eurasian margin was a complex system with extended back-arc basins and significant tracts of oceanic crust between […]
- Wednesday, February 4, 2026 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Where: Online Event Description: About this event: Decision-makers and practitioners across sectors increasingly depend on high-quality biodiversity and environmental data to meet management and reporting mandates of global biodiversity and sustainability frameworks and for financial and investment decisions. This online event brings together two leaders in biodiversity data analytics from the […]
- Wednesday, February 4, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Where: Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: A MPG/SGT seminar presentation by Dr. Debanjan Pal. Investigating the geodynamics of the Indian plate using time-dependent mantle convection models Abstract: The northward migration of the Indian plate after breaking apart from Pangaea in the Mesozoic, followed by its […]
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Media Highlights
- Christopher Scholz, a geologist, physicist, and professor emeritus at Columbia University, found that even the lakes that still survive today have drastically receded. Scholz and his research team investigated Kenya’s Lake Turkana…
- Scientist Dr Marco Tedesco is worried that ‘Antarctica becomes another must-see bucket-list destination for a growing global elite, with incremental impacts further eroding the very wonder people travel so far to experience’
- Interview with Dorothy Peteet.