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Come out to Palisades, NY, on October 14 for some fun, hands-on science education for all ages.

A Q&A with Jeffrey Shaman, who recently assumed the role of interim dean at Columbia Climate School

Recently, scientists connected giant waves in the global jet stream to hot, dry spells gripping widely separated parts of the planet at the same time. Now they have done the same for winter weather.

NASA has designated a group at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with preserving and making easily accessible data from all the extraterrestrial material curated by the agency.

The U.S. Southwest has suffered a historic drought over the past two decades. A new study elucidates the drivers, and says conditions will never return to those of the relatively wet 20th century.

Atmospheric scientist Michela Biasutti investigates what drives rainfall on a wide variety of time scales, and how climate change may affect it. She is passing on the basics to students.

An atmospheric scientist has been working to measure and mitigate a longtime health crisis afflicting much of the continent.

Atmospheric physicist Chia-Ying Lee is working to improve our understanding of how tropical cyclones will evolve in the future.

Scientists connected to the Climate School received notable accolades from the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.

Doctoral candidates or recent Ph.D., M.D., J.D. or Sc.D. recipients interested in research on sustainable development can apply by November 1.

Finding land mines the old-fashioned way—on foot, with a metal detector—is agonizingly slow and dangerous. Scientists are working to make the process faster and safer.

Two complex fields of human endeavor may have a lot to learn from each other.