climate change
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Indigenous Herders and Peru’s Melting Glaciers: A Conversation with Anthropologist Allison Caine
Caine’s new book depicts a small community in the glacier-fed Peruvian Highlands as it navigates climate change and social pressures.
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A Complicated Future for a Methane-Cleansing Molecule
A new model shows how levels of the “atmosphere’s detergent” may rise and fall in response to climate change.
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As Climate Change Exacerbates Extreme Weather, Olive Oil Feels the Squeeze
Intensifying droughts and extreme heatwaves are having a profound impact on olive quality, quantity and price, according to recent research.
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Can Capitalism Solve the Climate Crisis?
The inaugural Perspectives Dialogue Series event brought together prominent thinkers with diverse perspectives on capitalism and the role it could play in solving climate change.
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Art Meets Science at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Lamont’s 2025 Research as Art exhibit provides a platform for scientists to share their research in a creative way.
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How Can We Mend Our Living World?
An interdisciplinary panel discussed some of the complex issues facing our society as ecosystems collapse and relationships must be reevaluated.
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Unexpected Climate Feedback Links Antarctic Ice Sheet With Reduced Carbon Uptake
New study reveals surprising link between West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) retreat and algae growth over the past 500,000 years.
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Greenland Ice Cap Vanished Just 7,000 Years Ago
The first study from GreenDrill finds that Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome ice cap had fully melted much more recently than previously thought.
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Sea Levels Are Rising—But in Greenland, They Will Fall
Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper.
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