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Alum Spotlight: Applying Management, Strategic Communication and Policy Expertise to Human and Environmental Health
MPA in Environmental Science and Policy alum Julie Manoharan leverages her degree to help shape communications strategies and program development.
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A Record 16 Leading Sustainability Practitioners Headed to Practicum
The Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership, a course in the M.S. in Sustainability Management program, will host a record 16 leading sustainability practitioners this spring.
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Seeking Book Proposals on Water, Green Infrastructure, Climate Change Adaptation, and Public Health
The Education Committee of the Earth Institute faculty is seeking proposals for a new series of sustainability primers to be published by Columbia University Press. Proposals are due by March 4, 2019.
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The Truly Serious Side of Roadkill
A new film how India’s fast-expanding road networks is fragmenting the few remaining refuges of many endangered creatures. The results are hard to watch.
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Renewable Energy: What’s True, What’s False
A short, handy new guide from the Earth Institute cuts through the noise about renewable energy to lay out the facts about this politically charged subject.
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How Road Salt Harms the Environment
Recent research indicates that salt is accumulating in the environment and poses an emerging threat both to ecosystems and human health.
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Promoting but Regulating Electric Bikes in New York City
We need to be as creative in regulating new technologies and business models as the people who are making and selling these products and services.
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The Green New Deal and a Vision of Environmental Sustainability
The widespread and growing attention paid to environmental sustainability is difficult to ignore.
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Climate Fact and Right Wing Fantasy
The Trump administration’s effort to bury the newest climate report isn’t working.
AGU25, the premier Earth and space science conference, takes place December 15-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year’s theme—Where Science Connects Us—puts in focus how science depends on connection, from the lab to the field to the ballot box. Once again, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School scientists, experts, students, and educators are playing an active role, sharing our research and helping shape the future of our planet. #AGU25 Learn More
