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Climate Change is Destroying a Barrier That Protects the U.S. East Coast from Hurricanes
A new study finds that as air circulation patterns change with the climate, coastal states could get hit with stronger hurricanes.
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Climatologist Testifies to Senate Subcommittee Regarding Costs of Extreme Weather
Lamont’s Radley Horton explains that enhanced forecasts and better communication can reduce climate risks and create new economic opportunities.
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Drilling the Seabed Below Earth’s Most Powerful Ocean Current
Starting this month, scientists aim to study the Antarctic Circumpolar Current’s past dynamics by drilling into the seabed in some of the planet’s remotest marine regions.
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How Christine McCarthy Balances Being Both a Brilliant Scientist and a Mom
A science career can offer unique opportunities and challenges for juggling work and family.
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Study Identifies Better, Cheaper Ways to Stem Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
Some solutions are over 100 times cheaper than others, costing as little as $1 per person.
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‘Offsetted’ Art Exhibit Explores Humanity’s Relationship to Trees
A show on campus investigates how trees have been used as pawns in human schemes in and around New York City.
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Scientists See Fingerprint of Warming Climate on Droughts Going Back to 1900
In an unusual new study, scientists say they have detected a growing fingerprint of human-driven global warming on global drought conditions starting as far back as 1900.
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Drought: A Wide-Angle Picture
A new book, the second in a series of primers with the Earth Institute imprint, provides an interdisciplinary overview drought, bringing together many fields including climate science, hydrology and ecology.
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Seismologist Göran Ekström Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Ekström’s work spans many facets of global earthquake seismology, from the nature of individual earthquakes and other seismic sources to the large-scale structure of the Earth.

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