State of the Planet

News from the Columbia Climate School

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  • Lazy Bears and Confused Birds: What a Warming Planet Means for Wildlife

    Lazy Bears and Confused Birds: What a Warming Planet Means for Wildlife

    In the Arctic, climate change is upsetting the migratory rhythms of many species, disrupting pollinators, and spelling trouble for ecosystems around the world.

  • Tea Gardens to the Rescue

    Tea Gardens to the Rescue

    We switched to deploying our equipment for imaging faults and the structure beneath the surface to tea gardens to get away from power lines and buried the cables to protect them from gnawing foxes.

  • How Electric Vehicles Could Fix the Grid

    How Electric Vehicles Could Fix the Grid

    Local governments and policymakers are anxious about the U.S. grid’s ability to withstand ever-increasing demand. Consumers could hold the key to an untapped resource.

  • Dealing With Rain and Rats

    Dealing With Rain and Rats

    As we continued our geophysical measurements, we had to deal with heavy rains, flooding fields, and rats and foxes biting our cables. Many cables were broken soon after sunset, ruining the measurements.

  • Fieldwork in Bangladesh During the End of Ramadan and Eid Festival

    Fieldwork in Bangladesh During the End of Ramadan and Eid Festival

    We have come to in Bangladesh in the pre-monsoon heat to better image the active faults beneath the surface using electromagnetic instruments. We are using the fallow fields from the just-harvested rice crop for our sites.

  • Historically Redlined Neighborhoods Are Burdened by Excess Oil and Gas Wells

    Historically Redlined Neighborhoods Are Burdened by Excess Oil and Gas Wells

    A new study adds to the evidence that structural racism in federal policy is linked to the disproportionate siting of oil and gas wells in marginalized neighborhoods.

  • Crowdsourcing to Build Better Insurance

    Crowdsourcing to Build Better Insurance

    In order to offer protective insurance to greater numbers of smallholder farmers, in 2021, the ACToday project began testing mobile crowdsourcing apps that tap into the experiences and memories of farmers themselves.

  • The Climate-Nutrition Connection in Food Security

    The Climate-Nutrition Connection in Food Security

    In early 2021, ACToday, Cheikh Anta Diop University and Senegal’s national meteorological service organized a three-hour webinar to launch discussions about connections between climate and nutrition.

  • Putting People and Planet Before Profits: A Q&A With Martin Dietrich Brauch

    Putting People and Planet Before Profits: A Q&A With Martin Dietrich Brauch

    The senior legal and economics researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment wants to overhaul investment policies in order to fight climate change and achieve sustainable development goals.

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  • Lazy Bears and Confused Birds: What a Warming Planet Means for Wildlife

    Lazy Bears and Confused Birds: What a Warming Planet Means for Wildlife

    In the Arctic, climate change is upsetting the migratory rhythms of many species, disrupting pollinators, and spelling trouble for ecosystems around the world.

  • Tea Gardens to the Rescue

    Tea Gardens to the Rescue

    We switched to deploying our equipment for imaging faults and the structure beneath the surface to tea gardens to get away from power lines and buried the cables to protect them from gnawing foxes.

  • How Electric Vehicles Could Fix the Grid

    How Electric Vehicles Could Fix the Grid

    Local governments and policymakers are anxious about the U.S. grid’s ability to withstand ever-increasing demand. Consumers could hold the key to an untapped resource.

  • Dealing With Rain and Rats

    Dealing With Rain and Rats

    As we continued our geophysical measurements, we had to deal with heavy rains, flooding fields, and rats and foxes biting our cables. Many cables were broken soon after sunset, ruining the measurements.

  • Fieldwork in Bangladesh During the End of Ramadan and Eid Festival

    Fieldwork in Bangladesh During the End of Ramadan and Eid Festival

    We have come to in Bangladesh in the pre-monsoon heat to better image the active faults beneath the surface using electromagnetic instruments. We are using the fallow fields from the just-harvested rice crop for our sites.

  • Historically Redlined Neighborhoods Are Burdened by Excess Oil and Gas Wells

    Historically Redlined Neighborhoods Are Burdened by Excess Oil and Gas Wells

    A new study adds to the evidence that structural racism in federal policy is linked to the disproportionate siting of oil and gas wells in marginalized neighborhoods.

  • Crowdsourcing to Build Better Insurance

    Crowdsourcing to Build Better Insurance

    In order to offer protective insurance to greater numbers of smallholder farmers, in 2021, the ACToday project began testing mobile crowdsourcing apps that tap into the experiences and memories of farmers themselves.

  • The Climate-Nutrition Connection in Food Security

    The Climate-Nutrition Connection in Food Security

    In early 2021, ACToday, Cheikh Anta Diop University and Senegal’s national meteorological service organized a three-hour webinar to launch discussions about connections between climate and nutrition.

  • Putting People and Planet Before Profits: A Q&A With Martin Dietrich Brauch

    Putting People and Planet Before Profits: A Q&A With Martin Dietrich Brauch

    The senior legal and economics researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment wants to overhaul investment policies in order to fight climate change and achieve sustainable development goals.