The latest earth, climate, and environmental science news from across Columbia.
Voltpost, a company founded by two Columbia students, has secured $1.3 million.
The continuation of drought conditions in the last two years has broken a record going back to 800 AD.
Just 30 percent of the world’s researchers are women. Here’s why that matters, especially in the earth sciences.
Higher carbon dioxide levels boost plant growth, but the benefits could be offset by other factors altered in a warming climate.
It could be a money and a climate saver, writes David Goldberg, a geophysicist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Columbia's School of the Arts will present Jana Winderen’s “The Art of Listening: Under Water,” February 3-13, 2022.
Columbia Business School professor Bruce Usher explains what goes into creating an effective carbon market.
The deadly flooding caused by Hurricane Ida was made worse by drainage networks clogged with trash.
Columbia ecologist Shahid Naeem explains where the Green Revolution went wrong and what we can do about it.
Peter Kelemen has filed several patents for technologies aimed at harnessing the natural mineral carbonization process.
A laboratory experiment found that as CO2 solidified, it caused the rock around it to crack. In real reservoirs, this process could open up space to pump in more CO2.
The U.S. should undertake a major research program into how the oceans could be artificially harnessed to remove carbon dioxide from the air, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine co-authored by Columbia Sabin Center fellow Romany Webb.