Climate

From providing expertise on the risks of rising seas to New York’s coastline to shedding light on the mysteries of the universe, Columbians bring h

Paleoclimatologist Peter B.

Columbia climatologist Maureen Raymo is trying to predict the planet’s future by looking to its past.

The year since Hurricane Sandy blew ashore in the New York area has been one of rebuilding and searching for how best to prevent the level of destr

A recent slowdown in global warming has led some skeptics to renew their claims that industrial carbon emissions are not causing a century-long ris

Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an associate professor in the Department of E

When scientists talk about climate change, they usually mean significant changes in the measures of climate over several decades or longer.

Mark Cane, an expert on the El Niño climate pattern, and Terry Plank, an authority on explosive volcanoes—both scientists at Columbia University’s

Extreme weather can wreak havoc on cities and their economies.

The Lamont-Doherty Core Repository holds one of the world’s most unique and important collections of scientific samples from the deep sea—approxima

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

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology have published a study in the February 4 online Early Edition of Procee