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The president-elect’s plan will take us closer to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, but there is much work to be done.

Using radar and other techniques, researchers have mapped out the sediments left by a lake that apparently existed before Greenland was glaciated. Next step: drilling through the ice to see what they contain.

The database collects the best available evidence that anthropogenic climate change is real, that it is already here, and that predicted future changes must be taken seriously.

Researchers from around the world have established a new archive of data documenting changes in the movements of animals in the far north.

Whether or not we rejoin — and thereby do our part to prevent the worst impacts of climate change — depends on the outcome of the election.

An international team suggests that research centers around the world using numerical models to predict future climate change should include simulations of past climates.

Installed on top of Lamont’s oceanography building, PhenoCam will help track how trees grow and change with the weather, seasons, and climate change.

An engineer at Lamont-Doherty, Frearson builds instruments that help scientists collect vital data in Antarctica, the deep sea, and at the top of volcanoes.

Here’s a look at how the U.S.’s future climate regulation will look under Biden versus another four years of Trump.

Emissions from coal-fired power plants and possibly other sources in China are seeding the North Pacific Ocean with metals including iron, according to new a new study.

A new study suggests that a series of environmental changes in East Africa some 320,000 years ago challenged a previous long-standing way of life for proto-humans, and produced a more adaptable culture.

A new “escape room–like” game for kids and families offers a fun and puzzle-filled way to explore the discoveries taking place at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

In this episode Marie DeNoia Aronsohn talks with Maureen Raymo, the interim director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, on her vision for the institution.

To measure algal blooms across large regions of the Greenland ice, and understand their effects on melting over time, scientists are turning to space.

He’s working to make the geosciences an area where everyone can thrive.