Columbia to Establish a Climate School to Meet the Challenges of a Warming World
The Columbia Climate School will provide the education, research, and global partnerships needed to create and maintain a sustainable society.
View ArticleUnderstanding and Predicting Hurricanes in a Warmer World
Scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory use models and observations to understand tropical storms and advance the science of predicting them.
View ArticleGroundbreaking Project Will Drill Into Bedrock Below Greenland Ice to...
GreenDrill promises to reveal the ice sheet’s past in unprecedented detail and enable more accurate predictions of how it may add to rising seas in the 21st century.
View ArticleGenetics Could Protect Coral Reefs from Global Warming
The Columbia study provides more evidence that genetic-sequencing can reveal evolutionary differences in reef-building corals that one day could help identify which strains could adapt to warmer seas.
View ArticleLamont-Doherty Program Aims to Bring More Diversity to Earth Science
The Secondary School Field Research Program offers a diverse group of young people a unique opportunity to do field and laboratory research.
View ArticleColumbia Astrophysicist Brian Metzger Named 2020 Blavatnik Laureate
Research on the origins of gold and other heavy metals garners the nation's largest unrestricted scientific prize for young scientists.
View ArticleDueling Cyclones Brew in the Atlantic and Pacific
Suzana Camargo, a research professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discusses the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and the breakneck pace of storms so far this summer.
View ArticleColumbia Chemistry Receives $21.5 Million Gift from Dr. Ge Li and Dr. Ning Zhao
Today, Columbia announced the $21.5 million gift, which will advance research and teaching in chemistry at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia College, and the Graduate School of Arts &...
View Article8 Surprising Facts About Marie Tharp, Mapmaker Extraordinaire
Maybe you already know that she created some of the first maps of the ocean floor and helped discover plate tectonics. Here are some lesser-known facts about this history-making cartographer.
View ArticleAfrica’s Skies are Badly Polluted
About the lack of data, Columbia University atmospheric scientist Dan Westervelt said, “Many governments are simply worried that better data will lead to more criticism of them."
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