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Columbia Team's Innovative Design Recognized in EPA's First Campus RainWorks Challenge

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Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Professor Patricia J. Culligan and her doctoral student, Robert Elliott, were members of an interdisciplinary team at Columbia University whose design proposal was recognized for innovative technology in a green roof competition sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Their team received honorable mention in EPA’s first-ever Campus RainWorks Challenge.

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Earth's Current Warmth Not Seen in the Last 1,400 Years or More, Says Lamont Study

During Europe’s 2003 heat wave, July temperatures in France were as much as 18 degrees F hotter than in 2001. (Image credit: NASA)

Fueled by industrial greenhouse gas emissions, Earth’s climate warmed more between 1971 and 2000 than during any other three-decade interval in the last 1,400 years.

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New Lamont Study Ties Megavolcanoes to Pre-Dinosaur Mass Extinction

Geologist Dennis Kent of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory drills into rocks near a layer where fossils of half the species of life on earth suddenly vanish, at 201,564,000 years ago.

Scientists examining evidence across the world have linked the abrupt disappearance of half of earth’s species 200 million years ago to a precisely dated set of gigantic volcanic eruptions.

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