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Antarctica Undergoes ‘Greenlandification’ As Ice Melt Accelerates

Scientists have found that Antarctica’s ice loss is increasing rapidly, mirroring the melting of its northern counterpart, Greenland.

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• Geochemistry Seminar – Dr. Allison Franzese
  Wednesday, March 25, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Geochemistry Seminar with Dr. Allison Franzese. Contact: Kathryn Cheng
• Prakash Kumar – The History and the Present of the Green Revolution
  Tuesday, March 24, 2026 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Where: Knox Hall, 606 W. 122 St., New York, NY 10027 Description: The resource-intensive, extractive model of agriculture that India embraced in the 1960s helped the nation tide over food scarcity and yet ambivalences towards such agrarian transitions to productivity have remained. Critics have accused the green revolution of inflicting socio-economic […]
• Geodynamics Seminar – Leo van der Laat
  Monday, March 23, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Leo van der Laat. Crater-Lake Control on Phreatic Eruptions at Poás Volcano Revealed by Seismo-Acoustic and Multidisciplinary Monitoring Phreatic eruptions at crater-lake volcanoes are among the most hazardous and least predictable volcanic phenomena because they originate within shallow, rapidly evolving […]

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Media Highlights

• Iran Conflict Spurs Early Oil Price Surge
  March 1, 2026
  “The risk of escalation is greater than seen in recent regional conflicts,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, in an essay before markets opened….
• Did Climate Change Contribute to the Record-Setting New England Blizzard? — The Boston Globe
  February 28, 2026
  “That’s the fuel that powers these coastal storms,” said Daniel Bader, a senior staff associate at Columbia Climate School.
• Seattle’s Hidden Megathrust: The Science Hehind the Next ‘Big One’
  February 28, 2026
  In 2021, Suzanne Carbotte, marine geophysicist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, led a 41-day expedition aboard the Marcus G. Langseth. Her team towed a 9.3-mile sensor array across nearly the entire zone, firing sound […]