Climate48
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Thalia Balkaran: Working to Protect Children in the Caribbean From Disasters
Balkaran is helping communities in the Caribbean to develop disaster preparedness plans that focus on some of their most vulnerable residents: children.
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Ground-truthing With Yohana Tesfamariam Tekeste
Tesfamariam Tekeste helps farmers reduce their vulnerability to climate change. She tells us about her work, as well as some hard truths about why those vulnerabilities exist in the first place.
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Linda Fried: From Redefining Aging to Spearheading Research on Climate and Health
She helped establish the nation’s first program in a school of public health that delves into the complexities of climate change’s health impacts, and she continues to be a leader in the field.
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Learning From Tree Rings: An Interview With Nicole Davi
A dendrochronologist explains how tree rings can teach us about our past, present, and future.
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Climate Action Collective to Bring New Global Voices into Columbia’s Climate Response
Columbia Climate School is a partner in the Climate Action Collective, a global network of stakeholders who will work together to identify key climate challenges that Columbia can help tackle through its teaching, research and global programming.
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$12 Billion Investment in Puerto Rico’s Energy System Must Not Replicate Existing Harms
Unprecedented federal funding to fix PR’s electric system has the potential to save lives and build resilience by investing in distributed solar power. Yet so far it appears to be business as usual.
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Melting Glaciers Could Produce More Than 3,000 Miles of New Pacific Salmon Habitat
Once filled with ice, glacial valleys are now flowing with water in a warming climate, opening up new habitat for the Pacific salmon and revealing opportunities for a modern-day gold rush in parts of British Columbia and Alaska, a new study finds.
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Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: What’s New in the Latest IPCC Release
An interview with Ben Orlove, lead author on the report’s chapter on decision-making around climate adaptation.
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Reduce. Reuse. And Then, When All Else Fails, Recycle.
Recycling gets all the attention, but emphasizing reduction and reuse can do so much more to manage waste and curb climate emissions.
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
