News and Events Archives

Podcast: Megadrought Study Authors Break it Down [3/11/2015]

Are Decades-Long Megadroughts on the Horizon? [2/13/2015]

The United States of Megadrought [2/12/2015]

A Thirsty, Violent World [2/24/2015]

Your Call: How bad is California’s drought? [3/16/15]

Mad Max’s Scarily Accurate Take On Climate Change [5/22/2015]

Everything You Need to Know About Climate Change [7/1/2015]

Sloan Coats has successfully defended his PhD thesis, Paleoclimate Model-Data Comparisons of Hydroclimate over North America with a Focus on Megadroughts, which was honored with the 2015 Science for Society Award from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.  Sloan is now off to UC-Boulder to do a postdoc with Kris Karnauskas in the Oceans and Climate Lab.  Congratulations Sloan!  [7/24/2015]

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide [3/14/2013]

Get ready for the new normal: dry and drier [8/16/2015]

Climate Change Intensifies California Drought, Scientists Say [8/20/15]

California drought: Climate change plays a role, study says. But how big? [8/20/2015]

FACES Event at Climate Week NYC [9/21/2015]

Global warming worsened the California drought, scientists say [8/20/2015]

Scientists: Please Don't Nuke Mars [9/10/2015]

Lamont and the Earth Institute are pleased to welcome new Earth Institute postdoctoral fellow, Justin Mankin.  Justin will be working with Radley Horton, Richard Seager and Jason Smerdon on a project titled Near-term climate uncertainty, decision-making, and the fate of snow in a warming world.  He arrives from Stanford where he completed his Ph.D. with Noah Diffenbaugh and is a previous graduate of Columbia College and the Environmental Science and Policy MPA program in SIPA.  Welcome Justin!  [10/5/2015]

El Niño could push CO2 permanently above milestone [10/2815]

Declining Snowpacks May Cut Many Nations’ Water [11/12/15]

Shrinking Snowpacks [11/12/15]

6 Places Where Melting Snow Means Less Drinking Water [11/12/15]

Billions of People Depend on Water From Shrinking Snowpacks [11/17/15]

7 States That May Risk Water Shortages from Snowpack Melt [11/16/15]

What Is Attribution (And Why It Matters)? [11/13/15]

Snow-fed water supply threatened [11/25/15]

Five Reasons We Need To Act Now on Climate Change [12/4/15]

MPA-ESP Alum Serves as Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellow [12/8/15]

California drought threatens trees and agriculture, Columbia researchers say

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Additional articles related to the above piece are available here and here.

The 7 Most Interesting Climate Findings of the Year [12/30/2015]

Lamont is pleased to welcome new NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Nathan Steiger.  Nathan will be working on a project titled Reconstructing pre-industrial climate change and crop yields over the past millennium.  He arrives from the University of Washington where he completed his PhD with David Battisti, Greg Hakim, Gerard Roe, and Eric Steig in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.  Welcome Nathan!  [1/5/2016]

The Hottest Year [1/20/16]

Europe's recent summers were the 'warmest in 2,000 years' [1/29/16]

European Summers Are The Warmest They’ve Been In Two Millennia [1/29/16]

Modern European summers are warmest since Roman times [1/29/16]

Europe is the warmest it's been since Roman times: Tree rings show how temperatures are the highest in 2,000 years [1/29/16]

WAMC Academic Minute - Justin Mankin [2/29/16]

What the loss of snowpack means for water supplies [4/14/16]

Super Science Tuesday - New York Primary [4/19/16]

Also: Super Science Tuesday - Columbia University

And: Super Science Tuesday - Jason Smerdon

Accounting for Volcanoes Using Tools of Economics [4/20/16]

Connecting Teachers to Cutting-Edge Science [6/15/16]

Climate scientists predict more blazing heat, drought, fires and scores of dead trees in the West [6/23/16]

PAGES 2k PMIP3 Workshop on Hydroclimate Paleoclimate Data-Model Comparisons [6/1-3/16]

And: PAGES Calendar Entry

Submit to the Climate of the Common Era session at the 2016 Fall AGU Meeting [Application Deadline: 8/3/16]

Trump says too little is known about climate change [9/14/16]

U.S. Southwest faces 99% risk of 'megadroughts' due to climate change [10/5/16]

The Southwest Will Probably Suffer a Crippling Megadrought This Century [10/5/16]

Looming megadroughts in western US would make current drought look minor [10/5/16]