cs highlights25
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What the Inflation Reduction Act Does — and Doesn’t Do — for Climate
It’s the U.S.’s first bill that focuses on climate change, but it’s not perfect.
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Columbia Climate School Named University Partner for Climate Week NYC 2022
Experts from Columbia Climate School will join events bringing together voices from business, government, and civil society for the biggest climate event on earth.
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How Can the World Adapt to a Changing Climate?
In her new book, Columbia Climate School Lecturer Lisa Dale provides key strategies at local and global scales.
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Balancing Act: Can Precariously Perched Boulders Signal New York’s Earthquake Risk?
Long ago, melting glaciers dropped giant boulders onto surfaces in the New York City exurbs, and many seem to remain in their original, delicately balanced positions. Can they be used to judge the maximum sizes of past earthquakes?
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Heat Waves: Climate School Experts Available to Comment
Hundreds of people have lost their lives in Spain and Portugal due to a heat wave that is moving north and east.
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‘Make Scientists Artists Again:’ Photographer Ian van Coller on Reimagining Glacier Retreat
His new book reinterprets photographs from a 2016 expedition to Kilimanjaro’s glaciers, looks at the relationship between art and science, and documents loss caused by climate change.
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Dinosaurs Took Over Amid Ice, Not Warmth, Says a New Study of Ancient Mass Extinction
There is new evidence that ancient high latitudes, to which early dinosaurs were largely relegated, regularly froze over, and that the creatures adapted—an apparent key to their later dominance.
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Tropical Cyclones Are Dropping in Number, Study Says
Using historical records and model data, researchers have for the first time shown that the annual number of tropical cyclones dropped during the 20th century compared with the late 19th century.
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Manishka De Mel: Helping People and Ecosystems Adapt to Climate Change
At the Center for Climate Systems Research, she translates information about climate risks to support resilience-building in developing countries.

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
