Climate & Earth Sciences

The latest earth, climate, and environmental science news from across Columbia.

Catching enough Z’s can lead to improved health, productivity and sustainable choices that conserve Earth’s resources.

As part of Columbia's World Leaders Forum, she will talk about climate change, gender equality and social welfare.

Jared Fox, with Columbia's BioBus, helps New York City's mayor, Bill de Blasio, ring in 2020 with the annual ball drop.

The University asks students to collaborate on building a roadmap for climate response and a more sustainable future.

The ability to monitor deforestation and fires from satellite is now routine. Political will is the main ingredient.

I spent two months with 30 scientists in the Southern Ocean, collecting sediments from the seafloor that may help us better predict and combat climate change.

Columbia University ecologist and data scientist team up to apply modern technology to save forests

Columbia’s Michael Gerrard weighs in on illegal attempts by the White House to limit climate projections to 2040.

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has been tracking the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back or eliminate federal measures to mitigate climate change and to restrict or prohibit scientific research.

Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law was established in 2009 to develop legal techniques to address climate change. Since January 20th 2017, it has been busier than ever.

Geochemist Alex Halliday builds on a distinguished career as an earth science researcher and the leader of a variety of research institutions around the world, including Oxford University and the Royal Society in London.

In a new study, scientists describe a way to quickly sift through thousands of hours of field recordings to estimate when songbirds arrive at their Arctic breeding grounds. Their research could be applied to any dataset of animal vocalizations to understand how migratory animals are responding to climate change.