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Two Longtime Lamont Research Professors Honored With New Appointments
Robin Bell has been named the Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor and Richard Seager the Ewing Lamont Research Professor.
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Leveraging the Power of Open Source Data To Map the World’s Oceans
In honor of World Oceans Day, marine geophysicist Vicki Ferrini discusses the current state of ocean research, and the important role international collaboration plays in this field.
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All of the Biggest U.S. Cities Are Sinking
From the coasts to the interior, urban areas are sinking. The main culprit: pumping of groundwater.
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Columbia Beautiful Planet 2025
Each year, we honor Earth Day by sharing some amazing photos celebrating the beauty and magic of our planet, as captured by the Columbia community.
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Poets and Polders
Continuing on our journey, we visited the shrine and former home of Bangladeshi cultural icons, continued our interviews, and boarded a boat to take us to the embanked islands known as polders.
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A Special Trip to Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, a large and growing population lives in one of the most dynamic and sensitive environments on Earth, subject to multiple natural disasters and threatened by climate change.
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Trends in Early 21st Century Spaceflight
This multimedia essay explores some of the trends shaping the contemporary aerospace industry.
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Rocket Launches Are Proliferating. What Is This Doing to the Atmosphere?
What goes up in the form of rockets and their payloads must eventually come down in the form of launch emissions and objects falling out of orbit.
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Women in Science: Climate and Wildfire Researcher Caroline Juang
In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we profile Caroline Juang, who studies how climate change is impacting wildfires out west.
On Saturday, October 17, 2026 from 10am to 4pm, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House—our biggest, best science fun and discovery event of the year—will take place on our beautiful campus in Palisades, NY. Mark your calendar and join us for this free, family-friendly celebration of science! RSVP Today!
