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Columbia Law School Launches New Podcast Series on Climate Change and the Law
Defending the Planet, hosted by Professor Michael Gerrard, will feature Columbia Law and international experts, who share insights and ideas on how to save the planet.
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Conference Will Discuss Retreat From Rising Seas and Other Climate Hazards
From June 22 to 25, the Managed Retreat conference will examine the thorny questions around relocating homes and communities away from growing threats.
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German Court Sides With Youth Climate Activists to Safeguard Human Rights
The court ordered an expansion of the country’s carbon emissions law on the same day as an announcement that Germany’s glaciers could be gone in a decade.
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Kerry Was Correct: Decarbonization Will Require New Technology
Global environmental sustainability is a fundamental challenge that requires learning and hard work across many problems and possible solutions.
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Watching My Dad Die With Optimism Changed My Outlook on Climate Change
His father’s positive attitude in the face of terminal illness has inspired Cascade Tuholske to apply the same optimism while studying climate change.
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Columbia World Projects Issues New Report on Carbon Capture and Storage
The report identifies opportunities and challenges in implementing new technologies that could reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels worldwide.
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Melting Glaciers Have Shifted the Earth’s Axis
New research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that polar drift experienced in the 1990s was caused by a redistribution of water from glaciers to oceans.
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Columbia Institute to Be Key Partner in New World Bank-funded Climate Resilience Project
The Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa project will help farmers anticipate and prepare for destructive climate-related events.
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Climate Migration: An Impending Global Challenge
As climate change impacts intensify, more and more people will likely be forced to leave their homes and potentially cross borders into other countries.

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
