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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
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It’s Been One Year Since Wildfires Devastated Los Angeles. What Have We Learned?
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Can Mayor Mamdani Turn Climate Action Into an Affordability Win for NYC?
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Student Spotlight: A Systems-Level Approach To Help Solve India’s Food Challenges
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Photographing Climate Change: Ice Porters on the Frozen Chadar River
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Columbia Climate School Experts on What Gives Them Hope in 2026
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 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 […]
- Monday, January 26, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Presentation by Frederik Simons. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea With a Fleet of Seismic Robots In the last few decades, seismologists have mapped the Earth’s interior (crust, mantle, and core) in ever increasing detail. Natural earthquakes, the sources of energy used to […]
- Monday, January 26, 2026 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Where: Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Description: Strategic Investments for Resilient Agrifood Systems: Driving SDG Progress through Partnerships HYBRID EVENT: In-person: Due to limited capacity, advance registration of interest is required. In-person attendance will be confirmed by email closer to the event date. Register here for in-person participation (Lerner Hall, rm […]
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- However, geophysicist Lauren Lewright, a Ph.D. student at Columbia University, along with her adviser Jacqueline Austermann and other colleagues, found that this rebounding process—known as glacial isostatic adjustment—is unfolding much faster than expected in Greenland….
- Dr Irwin Redlener, founding director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, has previously identified New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC as facing elevated risks due to their combined […]
- “It’s going to take some time for the LNG and gas markets to absorb all of the LNG coming online in the next five years,” said Ira Joseph, a senior research associate at the Center […]