Author: Columbia Climate School29
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New Forensic Technique May Help Track Illegal Ivory
Epic Elephant Slaughter Leads Scientists to Develop Dating Tool
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Genetic Maps Of Ocean Algae Show Bacteria-Like Flexibility
May Hold Clues to Future Climate
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Arctic Current Flowed Under Deep Freeze of Last Ice Age, Study Says
Evidence Retrieved from Sediments in Remote Polar Basins
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Climate Scientist, Volcanologist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Mark Cane, an expert on the El Niño climate pattern, and Terry Plank, an authority on explosive volcanoes—both scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory–have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the National Academy, given for excellence in original scientific work, is one of the highest honors awarded to engineers and…
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Earth’s Current Warmth Not Seen in the Last 1,400 Years or More, Says Study
Fueled by industrial greenhouse gas emissions, Earth’s climate warmed more between 1971 and 2000 than during any other three-decade interval in the last 1,400 years, according to new regional temperature reconstructions covering all seven continents. This period of manmade global warming, which continues today, reversed a natural cooling trend that lasted several hundred years, according…
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NASA’s Jim Hansen to Retire
James E. Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, has announced he will retire as director of GISS this week to devote more time to his campaign to cut global carbon emissions. “Jim Hansen is a one of the true giants of climate…
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Wastewater Injection Spurred Biggest Earthquake Yet, Says Study
2011 Oklahoma Temblor Came Amid Increased Manmade Seismicity
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Study Predicts Lag in Summer Rains Over Parts of U.S. and Mexico
Delay Could Affect Agriculture, Livestock, Desert Ecosystems
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Lamont Oceanographer Recognized for Pioneering Work on Global Ocean Currents
An oceanographer who has painstakingly collected measurements from each of the world’s oceans to understand how the oceans move heat and freshwater around the planet to influence climate is the winner of the 2013 Prince Albert 1 Medal for outstanding contributions to oceanography, given by the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean…