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Climate School experts help to explain this devastating weather and what it means in the broader conversation of climate change and disaster response.

Climate scientists are still uncertain about a number of phenomena that could affect our future. What are the reasons for this uncertainty?

The Climate School is offering three new research assistant opportunities during the Spring 2023 semester.

A hyper-local study of vegetation shows that the city’s trees and grass often cancel out all the CO2 released from cars, trucks and buses on summer days.

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Climate School experts weigh in on the past year’s most noteworthy events and developments within their fields.

Changes in water temperature and circulation could have big impacts for a major fishery.

With the award of a 2022 Earthshot prize, new technology to remove carbon from the air by speeding up natural underground chemical reactions moves closer to reality.

Give the gift of deeper knowledge with these new books written by Columbia University scholars.

A guide to some of the most provocative and groundbreaking talks at the world’s largest gathering of earth and space scientists.

Tharp co-published the first world map of the ocean floors and helped prove the theory of continental drift.

Several weeks during summer 2021 saw heat records in the western United States and Canada broken not just by increments, but by tens of degrees, an event of unprecedented extremity. To what degree was it climate change, bad luck, or a combination?