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Can Generative AI help strengthen disaster preparedness and resilience among youth?
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Scientists Search for Ancient Climate Clues Beneath Antarctic Ice
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Securing the Future of Glacier Monitoring in a Warming World
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A Climate-Friendly Holiday Gift Guide
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American Geophysical Union 2025: Key Scientific Presentations From Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School
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The Sights and Sounds of COP30
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COP30 Is Over. But for the World’s Most Vulnerable, the Crisis Is Ongoing.
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Columbia and Climate School Delegates Reflect on COP30
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Swimming Toward a Constitutional Right for Nature
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
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- Thursday, January 15, 2026 9:00 AM – Sat , January 17, 2026 5:00 PM Where: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 St., New York, NY, 10024 Description: The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and the LEAP (Learning the Earth through Artificial Intelligence and Physics) NSF Science and Technology Center at Columbia University, in collaboration with Starr […]
- Wednesday, January 14, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Where: Online Event Description: Climate LIVE K12: When Waters Rise: How Flash Flood Preparedness Strengthens Communities Climate LIVE K12 is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents. About this Event In this session, we’ll examine the devastating Texas floods of July 2025, which claimed the lives of […]
- Monday, January 12, 2026 9:00 AM – Tue , January 13, 2026 5:00 PM Where: Teachers College Columbia University, 525 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027 Description: LEAP’s Winter 2026 Momentum Bootcamp is a hands-on event designed to foster convergence of climate science and data science; vertically integrate research and education; and forge a LEAP research and learning community […]
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- Jessica Fanzo, professor of climate and food and director of the Food for Humanity Initiative at Columbia University’s Climate School, explains that substantive efforts in the food sector have shifted since over the last 50 […]
- Peter Coleman studies cooperation and conflict resolution. He’s focused on building trust and bridges at Columbia.
- Reaching that scale would require thousands of flights per year from specialized planes and at least the quiet tolerance of governments deciding to look the other way, said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia […]