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William D’Andrea studies past climates to see how societies such as the Vikings and the Rapanui of Easter Island dealt with environmental change. His work may help us adapt to a hotter future.

ROSETTA-Ice project reveals that local ocean currents may play a critical role in the ice shelf’s future retreat.

Join us on Saturday, June 1st to explore one of New York’s most underrated treasures: our productive waterways!

A new study finds that as air circulation patterns change with the climate, coastal states could get hit with stronger hurricanes.

Lamont’s Radley Horton explains that enhanced forecasts and better communication can reduce climate risks and create new economic opportunities.

Starting this month, scientists aim to study the Antarctic Circumpolar Current’s past dynamics by drilling into the seabed in some of the planet’s remotest marine regions.

A science career can offer unique opportunities and challenges for juggling work and family.

Some solutions are over 100 times cheaper than others, costing as little as $1 per person.

A show on campus investigates how trees have been used as pawns in human schemes in and around New York City.

In an unusual new study, scientists say they have detected a growing fingerprint of human-driven global warming on global drought conditions starting as far back as 1900.

A new book, the second in a series of primers with the Earth Institute imprint, provides an interdisciplinary overview drought, bringing together many fields including climate science, hydrology and ecology.

Ekström’s work spans many facets of global earthquake seismology, from the nature of individual earthquakes and other seismic sources to the large-scale structure of the Earth.