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Sea Levels Are Rising—But in Greenland, They Will Fall
Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper.
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Sea Levels Are Rising—But in Greenland, They Will Fall
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Remembering World-Renowned Soil Scientist, Agriculture and Food Security Center Director Pedro Sanchez
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Student Spotlight: A Systems-Level Approach To Help Solve India’s Food Challenges
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, January 28, 2026 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Where: Accenture – One Manhattan West, 395 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY 10001 Description: The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA’s Women in Energy initiative and Accenture invite you to join us for an evening of conversation and networking focused on how nuclear energy could fuel the age […]
- Wednesday, January 28, 2026 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Where: Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Dr., New York, NY 10027 Description: Community Participation and Planning Guides for Local Climate Action in Chile (Virtual Webinar) This webinar will be conducted in Spanish. The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School, invites you to the launch of the Community Participation and Planning […]
- Wednesday, January 28, 2026 12:00 AM Where: Buell Hall, 515 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027 Description: Mending the Living World Columbia Maison Française – January 28, 2026 Columbia University and Villa Albertine will launch a new conversation series on ecology in 2026, addressing ecosystem collapse, human–nonhuman relationships, the societal impacts of global warming, and questions of resilience. The […]
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- Lisa Sachs, director of the Columbia Center on Sustainability Investment, called Exxon’s argument “a transparent delay tactic.” “The bottleneck to decarbonization is not improper carbon accounting….
- When Adhikari and other researchers from Columbia Climate School made this observation, they predicted that the Greenland coastline would experience quite a different outcome than the rest of the world when it comes to shifting […]
- The findings highlight the two-way relationship between the climate and plate tectonics, said study senior author Christopher Scholz, a geologist, physicist and professor emeritus at Columbia University….