State of the Planet

News from the Columbia Climate School

South Africa

  • Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Columbia Climate School students tackled real-world conservation challenges in one of the planet’s most biodiverse regions.

  • A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A report co-authored by the Center for Sustainable Urban Development offers recommendations for electrifying a popular mode of transportation in three African cities.

  • Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    The sound of a chainsaw rises discordantly above all natural sounds, disrupting the quiet of a warm African winters’ day, a destructive sound at odds with the African wilderness. But it is not a tree that is being felled. It is the horn of a rhino.

Columbia Climate School Giving Day on October 28, 2026, featuring students and renewable energy imagery

October 28, 2026 is Columbia Giving Day! Your gift to Columbia Climate School helps advance interdisciplinary research, educate the next generation of leaders, and transform bold ideas into real-world solutions for climate, Earth, and society.

  • Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Columbia Climate School students tackled real-world conservation challenges in one of the planet’s most biodiverse regions.

  • A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A report co-authored by the Center for Sustainable Urban Development offers recommendations for electrifying a popular mode of transportation in three African cities.

  • Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    The sound of a chainsaw rises discordantly above all natural sounds, disrupting the quiet of a warm African winters’ day, a destructive sound at odds with the African wilderness. But it is not a tree that is being felled. It is the horn of a rhino.