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New Data Suggest COVID-19 Is Shifting the Burden of Energy Costs to Households
Apartment-level electricity use has increased under New York’s stay-at-home order. It could make matters worse for households already struggling economically.
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My Neighborhood and Coronavirus, a Month Later
Scenes from an Upper West Side neighborhood in the grip of the pandemic.
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Absent: Prioritizing Recovery for Our Nation’s Schools
COVID-19 is exacerbating some of education’s long-neglected social issues and inequalities.
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Social Distance, Sustainable Cities and Building Public Health Capacity
The return to a normal way of life and to renewing our push toward sustainable cities requires that we develop an apolitical, science-driven public health capacity.
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Earth Day: How to Celebrate While You’re Sheltering in Place
There are many ways to get involved, take action, or simply marvel at the beauty of our planet, all without leaving your home or neighborhood.
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How Earth Institute Experts De-Stress Under Lockdown
From knitting to yoga and chocolate chip cookies, here’s how some of our team members are taking their minds off the pandemic.
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The Importance of Building Coalitions for a Clean Energy Recovery From COVID-19
The Columbia Energy Exchange podcast interviews former U.S. secretary of energy Ernest Moniz about the role energy sectors can play in reinvigorating the U.S. economy.
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Mass Testing for the Coronavirus and the Crisis of Public Management
We need to learn how to work together again as an American community. The alternative is to die alone while clinging to our ideologies and sense of moral superiority.
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Health Care in Crisis: COVID-19 Exposes Deadly Inequalities
Experts discuss why the pandemic is hitting harder in low-income communities of color, and what steps can be taken now to protect those on the front lines of covid-19 and climate change.
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
