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Solar radiation management is gaining traction as a climate intervention—but new research warns that real-world constraints make it riskier and more uncertain than most models suggest.
Recent Stories
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Nine Climate School Researchers Honored by Leading Scientific Organizations
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How Hard Is It to Dim the Sun?
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A New Study Indicates Forest Regeneration Provides Climate Benefits, but Won’t Offset Fossil Fuels
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As a Glacier Retreats, a Gold Mine Advances. Why Are Some Locals Angry?
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Building Climate Resilience Through Insurance Incentives
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Where Soil Meets Data: Yushu Xia’s Mission To Support a Healthier Planet
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Will New Areas Uncovered by Glacier Melt Boost Swiss Hydropower and Clean Energy Goals?
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Bridging the Gap: How AI Can Help—or Hinder—the SDGs
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Archaeologist Kristina Douglass Named 2025 MacArthur Fellow
During COP30—the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference taking place November 10–21 in Belém, Brazil—experts from Columbia Climate School and Columbia University will be contributing to key events, sharing insights, and helping shape the dialogue toward ambitious, science-based solutions. Learn More
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- Monday, October 27, 2025 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Where: Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Description: Abstract: The Columbia Climate School Postdoctoral Research Program is unique in its mission to train a generation of professionals equipped to address some of the world’s most urgent problems. The symposium will highlight the work of current Postdoctoral Researchers: Kevin Schwarzwald, Ariana […]
- Monday, October 27, 2025 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Where: Online Event Description: Road to COP30: Africa Speaks – Our Realities, Priorities, and Demands Date & Time Oct 27, 2025 09:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Description Africa is experiencing rapid warming, with extreme weather events and climate change worsening socio-economic conditions, increasing displacement, and hunger. Despite producing the least […]
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Where: The Burke Library, 3041 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Description: Join the Center for Earth Ethics and Union Theological Seminary’s Eco-Justice Caucus at UTS’s Burke Library for a dialogue and discussion with Mark Clatterbuck, editor of a new volume from Orbis Books. With a forward by Winona LaDuke, “Sacred Resistance” […]
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Media Highlights
- Researchers and crew aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth during the CASIE21 experiment, which collected seismic data to image the Cascadia Subduction Zone. … Geological Survey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are […]
- Two climate experts were among this year’s 22 winners: Ángel Adames-Corraliza, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who investigates the mechanisms underlying tropical weather patterns, and Kristina Douglass, an archaeologist at Columbia University’s […]
- California’s Great Valley “has a lot of high arsenic and it is the smaller water utilities that serve low income communities that struggle the most as any type of remediation is expensive,” Brian Mailloux, a research scientist in geochemistry […]