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How Can We Help People Who Cannot Flee High Climate-Risk Zones?
Much research focuses on people fleeing climate risks and natural hazards. What about those who can’t move?
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On Hurricanes and Hoaxes: A Case for Finding Common Ground
To fight climate disinformation, we must align with the skeptical, uncertain or disengaged to spur collective action.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Elizabeth Kolbert Is Cataloging the Climate Crisis
On Monday, Feb. 24, Kolbert visited the Columbia Climate School to give the Signature Speaker Series lecture, “Under a White Sky: Solar geoengineering and other bright ideas.”
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How Is Climate Change Affecting Your Valentine’s Day Chocolate?
Professor of Climate Jessica Fanzo explains what cacao trees need to thrive, and how climate change is making chocolate production more challenging.
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Huge Areas May Face Possibly Fatal Heat Waves if Warming Continues
Even healthy young adults may not be able to survive unless they can access artificial cooling.
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A Climate Change Adaptation Expert on How To Reduce Fire Risk
Reducing fire risk will require a foundational rethinking of where we build and how.
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Art as Witness: Honoring Iceland’s Changing Glacial Landscape
Artists Peter Bremers and Jim Schantz discuss their glacial artworks inspired by a journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park.
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Jimmy Carter’s Climate Legacy: A Road Not Taken
The former president’s progressive climate agenda demonstrates how leadership might inform long-term climate action.
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2024 Confirmed As Hottest Year on Record, Part of Sustained Upward March
Earth’s temperature exceeded the previous record set in 2023.
AGU25, the premier Earth and space science conference, takes place December 15-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year’s theme—Where Science Connects Us—puts in focus how science depends on connection, from the lab to the field to the ballot box. Once again, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School scientists, experts, students, and educators are playing an active role, sharing our research and helping shape the future of our planet. #AGU25 Learn More
