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Scientists can now determine what role climate change plays in making extreme weather events more frequent and intense.

Climate Week NYC may be over, but you can watch recordings of most of the amazing events hosted across Columbia University and the Climate School here.

Our popular video series for students, educators, and parents returns with an exciting lineup from October to May.

A sharp rise in temperatures on land is linked to unusual heating of the Atlantic Ocean, and changes in wind patterns that send that warmth westward.

Rainfall extremes this year affected millions.

Staple crops may see magnified adverse effects when warming climate drives away soil moisture.

A grad student and his colleagues search for innovative new ways to detect and disarm millions of hidden hazards.

A Columbia Climate School Ph.D. student recounts a research expedition into an active volcano in the Aleutian Islands.

Experts from the Columbia Climate School have provided their insights and perspectives to journalists across the country trying to make sense of Hurricane Ida.

A new venture will leverage big data and many disciplines to create better estimates of future climate.

Fast turnover of carbon between seawater and microbes is a fact, but how it works is largely a black hole. This projects aims to shed light.

Seismologist Won-Young Kim heard the first reports of the World Trade Center attacks while driving to work. Soon, he would be enmeshed in helping figure out exactly what happened, and when.