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State Farm’s California Pullout: What It Means for Climate Adaptation and Communities
Do decisions like State Farm’s aid in moving people out of harm’s way? Climate School experts discuss.
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New Tool Helps Communities Prepare for Natural Hazards
A revamped map lets you zoom in to check the climate, weather, and geological hazards in your own backyard and then learn how to protect yourself.
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New Mapper Opens Up Access to Flood Planning in New York State
An easy-to-use flood planning tool visualizes building footprint data for nearly all New York State, except New York City.
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Upcoming Scientific Fieldwork, 2023 and Beyond
Climate School researchers are carrying out fieldwork on every continent and every ocean. A guide to upcoming projects.
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Why It’s So Hard to Be Prepared for Disasters
Disaster expert Jeffrey Schlegelmilch discusses February’s devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the challenges to building resilience, and how emergencies can reveal the inner workings of a society.
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Should We Stop Using the Term ‘Natural Disaster’?
The words we use to describe events matter. Would a different term elicit more substantial change?
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What We Need to Learn From Climate-Accelerated Extreme Weather Events
We need to build our response capacity leading up to extreme-weather emergencies and implement a more systematic and assured process of reconstruction for victims in the aftermath.
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Towering Wildfire Clouds Are Affecting the Stratosphere, and the Climate
Aircraft collecting data from clouds of smoke have revealed surprising effects of wildfires on the ground.
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Gauging Losses and Lessons in Turkey’s Unfolding Earthquake Tragedy
As earthquake engineers stress, most of the time, buildings kill people, not the shaking itself. It’s exceedingly hard to unbuild, move back, or retrofit buildings at scale.
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
