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The Sustainability of Sustainability
The managers of our organizations must pay attention to the physical dimensions of environmental sustainability.
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What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Sustainability
A student examines the parallels between what this virus is doing to us and what we’ve been doing to our planet.
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Absent: Prioritizing Recovery for Our Nation’s Schools
COVID-19 is exacerbating some of education’s long-neglected social issues and inequalities.
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Social Distance, Sustainable Cities and Building Public Health Capacity
The return to a normal way of life and to renewing our push toward sustainable cities requires that we develop an apolitical, science-driven public health capacity.
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Trump’s ‘Industry First, Science Last’ Agenda Is Costing Lives
The president’s ongoing war on science has significantly weakened researchers’ ability to respond to COVID-19 and other looming public health and environmental crises.
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Reflections on COVID-19 and Our Destruction of Nature
The coronavirus pandemic provides mandatory lessons in sustainability.
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COVID-19 Requires A Competent, Professional Federal Government
If we can replace bluster and improvisation with measured, calm and rational decision-making, we can rise to this occasion.
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Living In and Learning From the Corona Crisis
We need to overcome divisions and come together in a single human community to combat a threat that disregards national boundaries.
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How to Take Action to Protect American Families and Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
School and business closures are necessary to protect our communities, but they will cause economic pain for many.
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
