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Climate Migration: An Impending Global Challenge
As climate change impacts intensify, more and more people will likely be forced to leave their homes and potentially cross borders into other countries.
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We Must Incorporate Social Justice When Planning for Compound Disasters
When multiple disasters combine, marginalized communities are impacted the hardest. A new paper offers suggestions for dealing with these combined threats.
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As Electric Cars Drop in Price, They Could Become Vehicles of Racial Equity
The rapid spread of electric vehicles will help to reduce deadly air pollution in communities historically burdened by environmental injustice.
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All-ABOARD: Changing Minds and Hearts at Sea
Pilot project aims to build diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences via a unique ship-based professional development model.
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Avoiding a Bitter End for Coffee From Climate Change
Students were looking for a link between climate stressors and coffee yield, but instead they found a complicated political relationship.
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Tidal Communities Make Their Case for Shaping Resilient Coastal Futures
A recent conversation focused on three coastlines where Indigenous and Black communities are caught between rising seas and societal and development threats on land.
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Five Years In, Legal Team Behind Groundbreaking Huaraz Case Remains Optimistic
A recent panel discussion provided an update on the case of a Peruvian farmer who is taking on one of the world’s largest energy companies over its carbon emissions.
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Climate and the Personal Essay — A Reading List
In a new reading group, students will explore the emotional and personal side of climate change. Follow along with this reading list.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar to Join Earth Institute as Writer-in-Residence
The climate justice essayist will work on creative projects and lead a reading group at Columbia for six months.
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
