Posts
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Why Climate Change Is a National Security Risk
The U.S. Defense Department regards climate change as a “threat multiplier” that exacerbates existing environmental stresses and national security risks, and affects everything it does.
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Science and Heritage: The Ice Memory Foundation’s Mission for the Planet
As climate change threatens an uncertain future, an international foundation is collecting and saving stories from the past in an unusual format: ice cores from disappearing glaciers that act as archives for both data and memories.
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Come Visit Us at Lamont Open House
Come out to Palisades, NY, on October 14 for some fun, hands-on science education for all ages.
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Building Environmental Policy on America’s Support for a Clean Environment
To develop a winning strategy promoting environmental protection, we should look at our many success stories and seek to imitate them. Successful policy has been based on widely shared values: we all like to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in a place free of toxics.
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8 Questions with Jeffrey Shaman, Columbia Climate School’s Interim Dean
A Q&A with Jeffrey Shaman, who recently assumed the role of interim dean at Columbia Climate School
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Chinese Scientists Are Combating a Glacier’s Melting By Covering It With a Blanket
Researchers at China’s Nanjing University are using a reflective blanket to stave off melting of the Dagu Glacier.
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Study Identifies Jet-Stream Pattern That Locks in Extreme Winter Cold, Wet Spells
Recently, scientists connected giant waves in the global jet stream to hot, dry spells gripping widely separated parts of the planet at the same time. Now they have done the same for winter weather.
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How Big Institutions Stymie Disaster Response, and What to Do About It
The new book Catastrophic Incentives explores why society is underprepared for natural and human-made disasters.
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How Can Communities and Developers Work to Mitigate the Impacts of Big Projects?
A new guide aims to helps developers and communities negotiate agreements that will minimize the impacts of large projects on local people and land.
