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Geochemistry Building Will Expand Knowledge of Earth
Amid cheers from hundreds of scientists and guests, Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory cut the ribbon at its $45 million Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building. The ultra-modern facility is “the step forward that we need to accelerate our efforts to understand and predict the important changes that will impact the way we live with our planet,”…
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Toll of Climate Change on World Food Supply Could Be Worse Than Thought
Predictions, Already Daunting, Fail to Account for Extreme Weather, Disease and Other Complications, Say New Reports
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Earth Institute Colleagues Share in the Nobel Peace Prize
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) marks a watershed moment. It signals that people across the world and at all levels of society are recognizing that ongoing climate change is not only a long-term threat to the global environment, but also an…
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Climate Swings Have Brought Great CO2 Pulses Up From the Deep Sea
A study released on May 11, 2007 provides some of the first solid evidence that warming-induced changes in ocean circulation at the end of the last Ice Age caused vast quantities of ancient carbon dioxide to belch from the deep sea into the atmosphere. Scientists believe the carbon dioxide (CO2) releases helped propel the world…
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Researchers From Around the World Converge on New York to Link Climate Change Science with Urban Policymaking Efforts
Urban Climate Change Research Network to be officially launched at May 10-11 Conference
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First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved by Columbia University Scientist and Private Company
Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The “air extraction” prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere. This is GRT’s first…
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New Study Shows Climate Change Likely to Lead to Periods of Extreme Drought in Southwest North America
How anthropogenic climate change will impact the arid regions of Southwestern North America has implications for the allocation of water resources and the course of regional development. The findings of a new study, appearing in Science, show that there is a broad consensus amongst climate models that this region will dry significantly in the 21st…
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New Research Analyzes Countries at Greatest Risk from Climate Change Impacts
Study looks at vulnerability of populations in low elevation coastal zones
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Gore, Sachs Address Way Forward on Climate Change
On February 20, 2007, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore spoke to a packed house in Columbia’s Low Library Rotunda to address the next steps needed to mitigate the global climate crisis. Gore called upon younger generations to speak up and demand change…
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