Research News 2021

We’ve gotten better at preventing and tracking oil spills, but oceanographers say much more progress is needed.

Climate science tells us how the world is changing. Climate art shapes how we choose to respond.

This pre-college program in Castleton, Vermont, will mobilize students in grades 9–12 to take action and affect change in response to our warming planet.

A Q&A with the geochemist, who plans to investigate a key climate interval millions of years ago.

Throughout Earth Month, we’ll be sharing some of the incredible photos that our researchers have captured during field work. Enjoy!

Blog posts and events to help you get informed, inspired, and involved.

A new study finds that that even when air pollution in Kinshasa and Brazzaville is at its lowest, it’s still four times higher than World Health Organization guidelines.

The discovery of fossil plants below a mile of Greenland ice indicates that the ice sheet completely melted in the past, and suggests it could rapidly do so again.

The postdoctoral researcher studies hydrothermal systems and will soon go to the Chilean Andes to explore how geyser activity there may be related to glacier growth and retreat over thousands of years.

Mingfang Ting studies the connection between planetary waves in the atmosphere and climate anomalies, such as droughts and extreme heat.

Gender equality is an essential ingredient in building a fair and sustainable world. Today we’re publishing stories that honor the accomplishments of many of our women colleagues and highlight programs that push for gender equality every day.

CO2 molecules make up only a small percentage of the atmosphere, but their impact on our climate is huge. The reason comes down to physics and chemistry.

She studies Earth’s past warm periods to try to understand the future, and was just named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow.

In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, meet just a few of the extraordinary women scientists of Lamont.

She’s trying predict fecal bacteria contamination of the river, and researching how environmental degradation disproportionately harms disadvantaged communities.

In honor of the day, we’re highlighting a few women who play an essential role in the Earth Institute’s work to understand how the planet works, how humans are changing it, and how to build a sustainable future.

She takes care of hundreds of kilometers of deep-sea sediments that are invaluable to science, and recently received a mentorship award.

We’ve lost 28 trillion tons of ice globally in 24 years, from 1994 to 2017, and the implications for sea level rise could be significant.

For her work toward charting the global ocean floor, scientist Vicki Ferrini has been named by the Explorer Club as one of 50 people changing the world.

Climate scientist Gisela Winckler explains the link between climate science and solutions, and shares some of her research adventures.

Researchers have reconstructed past sea levels in the western Mediterranean in new detail by sampling coastal cave formations.

Large numbers of icebergs that drifted unusually far from Antarctica before melting into ocean waters have been key to initiating ice ages of the past, says a new study.

Our 2020 Annual Report highlights our accomplishments from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020.

A new study traces three-million-year-old winds to help predict future circulation patterns.