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Rooftop Camera Will Track How Local Forests Change With the Climate
Installed on top of Lamont’s oceanography building, PhenoCam will help track how trees grow and change with the weather, seasons, and climate change.
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‘Vote the Earth’ Invites You to Use Poetry to Protect the Places You Love
The interactive online poetry project aims to inspire voters to put their love for the Earth behind the power of their vote.
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Looking Ahead With Hope as the Catastrophe Continues
The future I would like to see depends on the election tomorrow and on a unified national mobilization to finally address the COVID crisis.
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A Changing Regulatory Landscape Hurts the Environment
It’s important to follow what politicians do, not what they say, especially when it comes to environmental protections.
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Nick Frearson Designs Devices for Earth’s Most Extreme Environments
An engineer at Lamont-Doherty, Frearson builds instruments that help scientists collect vital data in Antarctica, the deep sea, and at the top of volcanoes.
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How the Sustainability Management Program Has Evolved During Its First 10 Years
A look at how the program’s coursework has expanded over time to cover the depth and breadth of its students’ interest.
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2020 Election Will Be Crucial in Determining Whether We Avoid a Climate Catastrophe
Here’s a look at how the U.S.’s future climate regulation will look under Biden versus another four years of Trump.
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U.S. Fails to Protect Wolverines, Again
Another proposal to list wolverines as an endangered species was rejected, amid emerging research about the urgency to protect them.
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Please Support the Earth Institute on Giving Day
A gift to the Earth Institute this Giving Day will support the largest interdisciplinary climate and sustainability research center on the planet.
AGU25, the premier Earth and space science conference, takes place December 15-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year’s theme—Where Science Connects Us—puts in focus how science depends on connection, from the lab to the field to the ballot box. Once again, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School scientists, experts, students, and educators are playing an active role, sharing our research and helping shape the future of our planet. #AGU25 Learn More
