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• MPG/SGT Seminar – Joshua Russell
  Wednesday, April 22, 2026 12:00 AM – 1:00 PM Where: Monell Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Dr Joshua Russell from Syracuse University. Title: Ocean-Bottom Seismology: A Window into the Rheology, Heterogeneity, and Dynamics of Oceanic Asthenosphere Contact: Ben Stoker
• CHART/C-ARCH Seminar on Climate and Health
  Friday, April 17, 2026 2:00 PM Where: Allan Rosenfield Building, 722 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032 Description: The P20 CHART (Charting Solutions for Health Impacts of Extreme Weather) Center and the Center for Achieving Resilience in Climate and Health (C-ARCH) will host its seminar on April 17, 2026. Dr. Thiago Arzua, postdoctoral research scientist at the Zuckerman Institute, will be presenting on […]
• Professional Learning Workshop: Climate and Disaster Risk Management
  Wednesday, March 25, 2026 5:30 PM – Wed , May 6, 2026 7:40 PM Where: Online Event Description: Schedule: (VIRTUAL) Wednesday evenings, March 25 – May 6, 2026. Session 1 will be 2 hours in length. All other sessions will run for 2 hours and 10 minutes. Session 1: March 25, 5:30-7:30 pm ET Session 2: April 1, 5:30-7:40 pm […]

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Media Highlights

• Think Again: Volcanic Eruptions Can Cool Earth – But the Impact Isn’t so Simple; Here Is Why
  April 13, 2026
  A 2024 study published in the Journal of Climate by researchers from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University used advanced computer modeling to simulate super-eruptions like Toba….
• Why Your Electricity Bill Is Vulnerable to Energy Supply Shocks in the Middle East
  April 11, 2026
  “Prices will probably remain at a relatively high level” through at least the middle of the year, said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a global research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Those […]
• How the Trump Administration’s Climate Math Doesn’t Add Up
  April 10, 2026
  It’s clear that taking action to prevent such disasters doesn’t hurt the economy as a whole, said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, but it does hurt some industries — namely, oil […]