Posts
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Faculty Announcement: Sheila Foster Appointed Professor of Climate
Sheila Foster has been appointed a tenured professor of climate at the Climate School.
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Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast: What to Make of Extreme Weather Predictions
Why are extreme weather events worsening? How is climate change contributing to this development? And what measures are being taken to adapt to this new reality?
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New Report Refutes 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind and Electric Vehicles
The Sabin Center identified and examined the 33 most pervasive false claims about renewable energy.
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Cascadia Subduction Zone, One of Earth’s Top Hazards, Comes Into Sharper Focus
Where tectonic plates collide off the coasts of the western United States and Canada, giant earthquakes and tsunamis occur. The last one was 324 years ago. When will be the next?
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If Ice Could Talk: Environmental Personhood in Social Media
What if the environment could speak for itself? Would people listen? Some parody social media accounts are trying to find out.
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How Much Carbon Can the Ocean Hold? Lamont Researchers Aim To Find Out
Galen McKinley and her research group are quantifying how much carbon the ocean removes from the atmosphere—and how much it fluctuates—to better understand climate change.
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New Report Provides a Ranking of Sustainability Around the World
The 2024 Environmental Performance Index, produced by centers at Columbia Climate School and Yale, offers a scorecard for 180 countries based on their climate change mitigation, ecosystem vitality and environmental health.
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Finding Public Space in a Crowded New York City
In a world where over 70% of humanity will become urban dwellers by 2050, the creative use of land for rest, recreation and community-gathering is essential.
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The Hidden Language of Ocean Coral
Logan Brenner, a scientist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is part of an international collaboration to drill into the ocean’s past.
