Recent News from Columbia
A New History of World War II
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.
Natural Areas May Acquire Too Little Nitrogen to Repair Climate
A study found that we have overestimated how much nitrogen enters natural ecosystems from the air. It has climate implications.
A Disaster Expert Explains Why the Texas Floods Were So Devastating
Andrew Kruczkiewicz, a meteorologist and senior staff researcher at the Columbia Climate School’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, breaks it down.
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Arts & Humanities

James Hoberman covers that decade of cultural ferment in the city in Everything Is Now.

John Phan shows how modern notions of language history are often hampered by nationalist narratives.

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.
Columbia in the News
WNYC, July 14
The Weather Channel, July 5