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New Study Reveals Hidden “Chemical Currency” Fueling the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle

This research identifies a diverse set of molecules released by marine phytoplankton that fuel microbial life and help drive Earth’s carbon cycle.

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• Connecting Sustainable Fashion Initiatives Across Universities
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• Are New York’s Environmental Concerns Worsening a Housing Shortage?
  March 31, 2026
  Michael Gerrard, the director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, said that the governor’s proposal had been largely well received. But he said many questions remained: Shouldn’t developers at least […]
• State Legislature Warming to Hochul’s Proposed Climate Act Changes
  March 29, 2026
  That goal is in the distant future, which lets current policymakers “completely off the hook,” said Michael Gerrard, the founder and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.
• Africa Is Hurting Again From a Global Crisis It Had No Part in Starting
  March 28, 2026
  “If the conflict persists for another month or two, honestly, we’re going to be in unknown terrain, that no one else, like, no one can really predict, and we just have to wait and see,” […]