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Marco Tedesco explains how remote-sensing data can reveal how Greenland's ice sheets are melting.
In honor of this year’s sustainability theme, we highlight just a few examples of the outstanding women scientists from the Columbia Climate School.
Climate professor Mingfang Ting discusses how atmospheric rivers are connected to climate change and what communities can do about them.
Tree-ring scientist Nicole Davi explains the critical role maritime forests play in protecting our coastal communities from storms. The tree-ring records she's building will help us understand how these ecosystems are responding to climate change.
Increased heat due to human-induced climate change, not just lack of rain, is driving the continued drying of soils, say researchers.
The Climate School and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are partnering with the Tencent Foundation to develop sustainability education curricula.
This second video for Science for the Planet series explores the idea of sinking sargassum seaweed deep in the ocean, taking carbon with it.
An undersea eruption a half million years ago was much larger than nearly anything recorded in human time.
After he graduates from the Master of Science in Sustainability Science program in the spring, Tyler Zorn hopes to work in a sustainability-driven climate technology firm.
Using a new technique, scientists have been able to identify extremely minute plastic fragments in bottled water, 10 times more than previously counted.
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Mingfang Ting wears many hats at the Columbia Climate School as a scientist, professor and education designer.
Lamont research professor Brendan Buckley helps his students learn to listen to the trees.
Scientists have produced a new curve of how atmospheric carbon dioxide affects climate. It makes clear that its effects can be long lasting.
A guide to notable research to be presented at the world’s largest gathering of earth and space scientists.