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Students Tour Gowanus Canal Superfund Site
With the help of local tour guides, Environmental Science and Policy students learned about the background and current state of one of the most contaminated sites in the country.
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Collapsing Glacier in Kyrgyzstan Sends Worrying Signal to Central Asia
In Kyrgyzstan, where glaciers cover 8% of the land, a recent glacier collapse highlights the dire plight of glaciers in a country that depends on them.
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The Webb Telescope’s Faraway Revelations, and Earth’s Here-and-Now Challenges
NASA has two missions: understanding and protecting the home planet, and exploring outer space. Both missions are necessary to building a sustainable future.
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Alumni Spotlight: Jeffrey Fralick, Climate Risk Analyst
After graduating from Columbia’s Sustainability Science program, Jeff took a bit of a detour but eventually ended up at his dream job.
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Carbon Footprints: How to Advance Transparency and Prevent Greenwashing
We need a unified format for how carbon footprints are communicated, and policies to make them a normal part of doing business.
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‘Make Scientists Artists Again:’ Photographer Ian van Coller on Reimagining Glacier Retreat
His new book reinterprets photographs from a 2016 expedition to Kilimanjaro’s glaciers, looks at the relationship between art and science, and documents loss caused by climate change.
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Space Glaciers: Carbon Dioxide Ice Forms Glaciers on Mars
A modeling study recently found that the carbon dioxide ice deposits at the South Pole of Mars flow as glaciers do, highlighting the importance of understanding ice in outer space.
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The Pace of the Transition to an Environmentally Sustainable Economy
We need to focus less on dramatic gestures and symbols demonstrating commitment and more on operational reality if we are to truly speed the transition and reduce long-term, irreversible damage to the planet.
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New York Denies Air Quality Permit to a Cryptocurrency Mining Facility, Citing Sabin Center White Paper
On June 30, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation denied an application to renew an air quality permit for the Greenidge Generating Station, citing work published by Columbia Climate School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
