polar geophysics
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Plugging the Leak on Laundry Pollution
Laundry is the biggest source of microplastic fibers in our waterways. These Columbia researchers are working on a solution.
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A Virtual Reality Film That Makes the Climate Crisis Feel “Real”
‘Once a Glacier’ is about a girl who tries to save a glacier—and with it, forge new empathy for our fellow humans and planet.
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U.S., UK Scientists Join to Study Possible Collapse of Massive Antarctic Glacier
An international collaboration will study the wasting of the Thwaites glacier, which already accounts for around 4 percent of current global sea-level rise, and could collapse within decades or centuries.
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Kirsty Tinto: Mapping on and under Antarctica’s Ice
Kirsty Tinto flies aboard a specially equipped airplane in very cold places to study ice sheets and ice shelves. She’s an associate research scientist in the polar geophysics group at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

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