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Conference Raises Tough Questions About Retreat from Rising Seas
Hundreds of experts gathered on campus to discuss possibilities for protecting coastal communities and withdrawing when we can no longer safely inhabit our coastlines.
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How Landing on the Moon Changed Our World
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory director Sean Solomon discusses how Apollo 11 affected the scientific community, how Lamont was involved, and what comes next for lunar exploration.
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By Cutting Ozone Pollution Now, China Could Save 330,000 Lives by 2050
Climate change could worsen China’s already bad ozone pollution problem — but a new study shows that it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Wiggle Wrangling on a Core-Drilling Ship
A scientist explains how she lines up wiggles on a screen to recover the missing layers in cores drilled from the bottom of the ocean.
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Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires
A new study combs through the factors that can promote wildfires in California, and concludes that in many cases, warming climate is the decisive driver.
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Robin Bell Goes to Washington to Testify About Melting Ice Sheets
At a hearing of the House Science Committee on Thursday, she’ll explain her research and why changing polar ice matters to everyone in America and around the world.
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After a Long Wait, Expedition 383 Drills its First Seafloor Core
It took six days to sail to Point Nemo, the most inaccessible point of the ocean on this planet, to drill a sample from the ocean floor.
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Harnessing Big Data and Machine Learning to Forecast Wildfires in the Western U.S.
New research will advance understanding of how wildfires may evolve in the future, and how we can most effectively respond to them.
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How Much Do Climate Fluctuations Matter for Global Crop Yields?
A new study finds that ENSO has caused widespread, simultaneous crop failures in recent history, running counter to the long-held assumption that crop failures in geographically distant breadbasket regions are unrelated.
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