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Personal Interviews Gain Insights to Community Perspectives
Interviews provide an emotional and thoughtful connection to others through discussing and sharing over topics that they might never have a chance to discuss otherwise.
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Dancers Perform the Ice
A report on the 2021 artists in residence at the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska.
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Insurance Tools for Climate Adaptation: Q&A with Rahel Diro
Diro is an expert on index-based insurance, a proven way to help farmers cover some of the financial losses caused by drought and other weather extremes that damage their crops.
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Alumni Spotlight: Sustainability Management Alumnus, Mark Wolf – Career and Executive Coach, CEO
The sustainability consultancy CEO came to the SUMA program because he wanted to make an impact.
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Narrating Landscapes: How Indigenous Storytelling Can Unlock Our Environment’s Past
Blackfoot stories, handed down for hundreds of years, present a narrative portrait of our changing world at the end of the Ice Age.
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Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research Program Now Accepting Applications for 2022
Doctoral candidates or recent Ph.D., M.D., J.D. or Sc.D. recipients interested in research on sustainable development can apply by October 27.
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The New York Times Company Should Stop Creating Fossil Fuel Ads
As a former climate-focused writer at the paper, I think it’s time for the Times Company to stop making ads for fossil fuel giants, but not yet for a total ban.
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Glacial Ice Cores Reveal 15,000 Year Old Microbes
Ancient ice contains a rich microbial record going back thousands of years. Recent advances have provided tools to study their genes and evolution, but climate change threatens to erase this frozen archive.
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How Do High School Students Combat the Climate Crisis and Plan for Community Resilience After a Disaster?
Students tackled this question in a week-long virtual immersion program on community planning for resilience.

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
