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Building Climate Justice: Empowering Communities Through Coastal Resilience at Columbia University
A new class in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development aims to educate students on effective climate-adaptation planning through collaboration with community partners.
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Painting at the End of the Ice Age: An Interview With Artist David Rosenthal
An artist unintentionally captured glacial retreat for over forty years. An exhibit brings his paintings together to raise awareness of climate change.
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Climate School Report Details 2023 State Policy Trends in Disaster Resilience
Every U.S. state passed some kind of disaster resilience policy in 2023, according to the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, which released a report examining over 600 U.S. state disaster resilience bills enacted last year.
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Equipping Teachers and Students for Effective Sustainability Education
The Climate School and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are partnering with the Tencent Foundation to develop sustainability education curricula.
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Alaska Challenges Reinstated Protections for Tongass National Forest
A coalition of Alaskan groups have challenged the Biden administration’s reinstated rules to protect the Tongass National Forest, a major carbon sink that is crucial to Indigenous groups, local biodiversity and the Alaskan economy.
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Student Spotlight: Reframing Corporate Sustainability to Account for Communities
Carmelli Leal, a junior in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development, wants to help corporations shift sustainability efforts toward climate justice and community empowerment.
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Faculty Spotlight: Finding Hope Through Climate Science Research and Education
Mingfang Ting wears many hats at the Columbia Climate School as a scientist, professor and education designer.
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Faculty Spotlight: Why Trees Will Always Have Something to Teach Us
Lamont research professor Brendan Buckley helps his students learn to listen to the trees.
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Paving the Way for Backpack Climate Science: North Cascades Glacier Climate Project Turns 40
Forty years after Mauri Pelto began studying the glaciers in northern Washington, much has changed about the glaciers, the project and the people involved.
The first Earth Day in 1970 ignited a movement to stop polluting our planet. This Earth Month, join us in our commitment to realizing a just and sustainable future for our planet. Visit our Earth Day website for ideas, resources, and inspiration.
