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Planet Earth May Have a Metabolism Problem
In a recent talk, a visiting scholar argued that Earth’s energy balance is out of whack, and it’s up to humanity to fix it.
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Linda Sohl Reconstructs Climate Models to Help the Search for Alien Life
By taking regular climate simulations and making them weird, she explores Earth’s past and future, and imagines what other life-supporting worlds could look like.
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Columbia Students and Locals Team Up to Build Resilience in Johnstown, PA
Workshop shows how climate adaptation could be linked with economic revitalization in the nation’s so-called “Rust Belt.”
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Lies of the Bamboo Toothbrush: The Plastic Industry’s Perverse Greenwashing
How ploys like bioplastic and anti-litterbug campaigns help to protect the true culprits of plastic pollution.
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The Intergenerational Ethics of Climate Change
We owe the young climate activists our attention and support.
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How Columbia’s Electrochemical Energy Center is Working to Decarbonize Society
The center focuses on developing better batteries as well as other energy storage options, which are key to a future fueled by renewable energy.
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You Asked: How Can We Track Corporate Sustainability Measures?
An Earth Institute expert explains how to dig up a company’s sustainability records.
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As Climate Warms, Plants May Demand More Water, Cutting Supplies for People
New study challenges many climate scientists’ expectations that plants will make much of the world wetter in the future.
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Trump’s Continued Climate Denial and the Fires of California
If we are to address climate change, environmental protection must once again be seen as above politics and an unfit arena for partisan battle.
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