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Yutian Wu received funding from the Center for Climate and Life to investigate whether the loss of Arctic sea ice promotes severe weather over North America.

A variety of undergraduate research assistant positions are available for the upcoming semester. Apply by January 31, 2019.

A variety of undergraduate, graduate and PhD positions are available in various departments and research centers. Apply by January 31, 2019.

The American Geophysical Union fall meeting takes place Dec. 10-14 in Washington, D.C. Here is a guide to key talks and other events from Columbia’s Earth Institute.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that limiting global warming to 1.5˚C will require removing CO2 from the atmosphere. How feasible is this?

A concerted, multidisciplinary effort is needed to tackle this complexity, scientists argue in a paper released on Monday.

A guide to wildfire experts at the Earth Institute.

A Q&A with Jason Smerdon, coauthor of the newly revised Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future.

Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has found that rising temperatures influence wildfires in the American West.

I had one last day installing seismometers with the team, then left for Mandalay. After a breakfast with colleagues, I had a free day to explore Mandalay Hill.

With the GPS done, I joined the seismologists installing 32 stations in Myanmar. We finished the preparations and then headed out to the field in three teams.

On the way back to Kale, we stopped at a Catholic church where one of the seismometers will be deployed.