The latest earth, climate, and environmental science news from across Columbia.
People in impoverished urban areas, refugee camps, and war zones can be particularly vulnerable to climate threats.
A new study warns that widespread areas may soon become too hot during extreme heat events for even healthy people to survive.
Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, director of Columbia's National Center for Disaster Preparedness, discusses the path forward.
Alexis Abramson says the Climate School is in a unique position to tackle the climate crisis.
Smiling robots, nanoplastics, electric fish, and an archaeological dig in Peru were some of the biggest news stories of the year.
From a deep dive into the whale who played Free Willy to a treatise on censorship and surveillance on the border, add these to your queue.
Certain regions are seeing repeated heat waves that fall far beyond what any model of global warming can predict or explain.
A new study throws cold water on the assumption that exquisite fossils resulted from cataclysmic volcanic eruptions.
Data science students are using drone photography and Artificial Intelligence to understand why Greenland's ice sheet is melting so quickly.
A new study led by Columbia researchers is upending a long-held hypothesis about what ushered in the Jurassic period.
More than 2,000 visitors attended this year's installment of the annual earth science-focused event.
Braddock Linsley, a professor at the Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has been investigating coral for decades.