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How Columbia Students and Local Activists Are Co-Creating Climate Justice
A course aims to teach students the importance of effective climate-adaptation planning through collaboration with local community partners.
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Planning Exercises That Got Community Engagement Right
The Resilient Coastal Communities Project has a new white paper that highlights examples of truly fair and accountable resilience planning.
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Leveraging Risk Communications to Bridge Tribal Voices
A new, collaborative project aims to elevate and bridge Tribal voices in disaster risk communication.
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Sea Levels Are Rising—But in Greenland, They Will Fall
Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper.
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Get Ready for Smokier Air: Record 2023 Wildfire Smoke Marks Long-Term Shift in North American Air Quality
A new analysis of air quality data from the past 70 years shows a broader, continent-wide trend toward smokier skies.
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Year in Review: Our Top Stories of 2025
A look back at the stories and videos that shaped our year at State of the Planet.
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Repairing Global Navigation Satellite Systems in the Land of Tea
Mike Steckler is back in Sylhet, Bangladesh, to repair GNSS stations that are monitoring tectonics and earthquake hazards, and measuring the sinking of the land in the world’s biggest delta.
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Archaeologist Kristina Douglass Named 2025 MacArthur Fellow
Douglass’s research uses lessons from the past to help communities understand how to adapt to climate change.
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A Blueprint for Survival: New EAT-Lancet Report Is a Sustainable Food Systems Roadmap
The much-anticipated second EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable and Just Food Systems has been released, building on the landmark 2019 report that first defined the Planetary Health Diet.
You Asked invites you to share your most pressing questions about climate, science, and sustainability. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School experts will respond with clear, evidence-based answers. Pose your questions and story ideas!
