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Unexpected Climate Feedback Links Antarctic Ice Sheet With Reduced Carbon Uptake
New study reveals surprising link between West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) retreat and algae growth over the past 500,000 years.
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Can Carbon Markets Offset the Emissions We Can’t Eliminate?
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Unexpected Climate Feedback Links Antarctic Ice Sheet With Reduced Carbon Uptake
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Greenland Ice Cap Vanished Just 7,000 Years Ago
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Sea Levels Are Rising—But in Greenland, They Will Fall
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Human Activity Is Driving Rapid Sinking of World’s River Deltas
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Remembering World-Renowned Soil Scientist, Agriculture and Food Security Center Director Pedro Sanchez
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Get Ready for Smokier Air: Record 2023 Wildfire Smoke Marks Long-Term Shift in North American Air Quality
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New Policies, Same Inequalities for Agricultural Workers in Mexico
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TRACX Program Connects Educators Worldwide with Ocean Science Research
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
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- Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Where: Online Event Description: Join us for a conversation on Freshwater and the Sustainability of Bangladesh’s Delta Water is abundant in Bangladesh, but not always in the form needed: it may be too salty for irrigation or drinking, contaminated with microbial pathogens, or laden with arsenic. It can flow in overwhelming amounts […]
- Tuesday, February 10, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Where: 2910 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 Description: Please join Columbia Climate School’s Office of Inclusive Excellence on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, from 1:00–2:00 p.m. for a Black History Month event, Harboring Resilience: Community, Climate, and New York City’s Waterfront Future, featuring Memphis Washington. The event will highlight community-centered climate resilience and […]
- Monday, February 9, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Craig Martin. Paleogeography of the southern Eurasian margin in the lead-up to the India-Eurasia collision At the onset of the India-Eurasia collision the Eurasian margin was a complex system with extended back-arc basins and significant tracts of oceanic crust between […]
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- Christopher Scholz, a geologist, physicist, and professor emeritus at Columbia University, found that even the lakes that still survive today have drastically receded. Scholz and his research team investigated Kenya’s Lake Turkana…
- Scientist Dr Marco Tedesco is worried that ‘Antarctica becomes another must-see bucket-list destination for a growing global elite, with incremental impacts further eroding the very wonder people travel so far to experience’
- Interview with Dorothy Peteet.