environmental impacts
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High-Resolution Data Products Help Illuminate Urbanization’s Reach
High-resolution data on impervious surfaces and urban extents can shed new light on patterns of urban and rural development.
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Cut! How the Entertainment Industry is Reducing Environmental Impacts
The film and TV industries are working to produce sustainable entertainment and changing the way you think about your favorite shows and movies.
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The Hard Work of Making Sustainability Management Real
To have meaningful change on sustainability, corporations, nonprofits and governments must bring it into the regular fabric of organizational life.
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Project Calculates the Cost of Social Conflict
The Columbia Water Center is undertaking a three-year project to quantitatively assess mining-related water and environmental risks and their financial implications.
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When Environmental Oversight Takes a Back Seat
The government of Peru faces significant pressure to encourage growth and investment in the mining sector, but this has also put pressure on the government’s ability to properly assess environmental impacts.
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
