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Consider helping to revive a degraded ecosystem by getting involved in an ecorestoration project.
We’ve gotten better at preventing and tracking oil spills, but oceanographers say much more progress is needed.
Tonight’s Earth Lecture takes a hard look at climate change and the path forward.
Climate science tells us how the world is changing. Climate art shapes how we choose to respond.
The decorated climate scientist is named director of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and co-founding dean of the newly launched Columbia Climate School.
The Columbia Climate School will be co-led by four of Columbia’s most eminent climate experts: Alex Halliday, Jason Bordoff, Ruth DeFries, and Maureen Raymo.
This pre-college program in Castleton, Vermont, will mobilize students in grades 9–12 to take action and affect change in response to our warming planet.
A new study finds that summer monsoon rainfall in India will become stronger and more erratic, posing a threat to the region’s agriculture and economy.
A Q&A with the geochemist, who plans to investigate a key climate interval millions of years ago.
Controversy over the age of an early fossil of Homo erectus has been settled, and has led to other specimens.
Throughout Earth Month, we’ll be sharing some of the incredible photos that our researchers have captured during field work. Enjoy!
A look back at the past year and lessons from the pandemic that might help in solving climate change.
A new study finds that that even when air pollution in Kinshasa and Brazzaville is at its lowest, it’s still four times higher than World Health Organization guidelines.
She likes to go hiking during her lunch break and enjoys weekly Zoom calls with her sisters during the pandemic.
The discovery of fossil plants below a mile of Greenland ice indicates that the ice sheet completely melted in the past, and suggests it could rapidly do so again.