The climate crisis challenges our water supply in many ways, from deadly hurricanes to widespread and severe droughts. To combat water scarcity, neighborhoods and communities must reconsider the design of their wastewater ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2022
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Although fall officially began on September 22, the trees around Palisades, New York, don't seem to know it yet. At the Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a camera sits on a rooftop monitoring the ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2022
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President Biden recently scored a big win in the fight against climate change with his Inflation Reduction Act, but despite the compromises it made to the fossil fuel interest, not a single Republican voted for it—neither ...
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2022
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How did plants and animals survive around 200 million years ago when the carbon dioxide concentration went up to 6,000 parts per million? Paul Olsen, a geologist and paleontologist at Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2022
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Around the planet, ice is rapidly disappearing. From mountain tops, the poles, the seas, and the tundra. As the ice melts, it's exposing new surfaces, new opportunities, and new threats—including valuable mineral deposits, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2022
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Record-breaking weather events are becoming more common, costly, and extreme. Not only do these extreme weather events destroy lives and homes. Less talked about is how they can also disrupt the deployment of renewable energy ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2022
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Scientists have identified a new species of long-extinct otter in Ethiopia that was the size of a modern lion. Weighing an estimated 200 kilograms, or 440 pounds, it is the largest otter ever described; it would have rubbed ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 7, 2022
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Biological oceanographer Hugh Ducklow studies the marine food web, and how it interacts with the physical properties of the oceans. Much of his work is through the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Program (LTER), in which ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2022
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,Holes in sea ice provide the perfect hunting ground for polar bears looking to catch their main food source—seals. So when rising temperatures cause sea ice to melt, polar bears' existence is threatened, making them the ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2022
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With many people stuck at home during the early stages of the pandemic, backdrops of orange ash-filled skies, flash flood events, and record setting heat waves made climate denial more difficult. Last year, the sixth IPCC ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2022
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