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Traveling by boat, we are finishing our data collection and equipment servicing in coastal Bangladesh.

A plan to build a judging tower atop coral may cause irreversible damage to the local marine ecosystem.

As part of our trip studying land subsidence and elevation changes, we boarded a boat to travel through the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.

On Costa Rica's active Poás volcano, scientists install geophysical instruments that can monitor the underground in real time.

The sustainability of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta and Bangladesh depends on the balance of sea level rise, land subsidence and sedimentation. We are measuring the latter two across the coastal zone.

A Q&A with Rose Oelkers, a Ph.D. candidate at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who studies tropical trees and their response to changes in the environment.

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.