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First Columbia Climate School Graduates Head Off to Exciting Jobs
This year’s graduating students are carrying their climate expertise into startups, government agencies, advocacy organizations, and more.
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Surprise: Inflation Reduction Act Makes Oil and Gas Development on Federal Land Less Attractive
The bill’s requirement to offer land for oil and gas development may have a more limited impact than feared.
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Harlem Week Event Discusses Environmental Justice and a More Equitable Future
A century ago, the Harlem Renaissance changed the worlds of art and culture. Could Harlem one day become a leader in the transition to a green economy?
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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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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.
