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October 24, 2019
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October 24, 2019
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October 21, 2019
New findings double potential emissions from these areas, with big implications for climate modeling.
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October 16, 2019
Kevin Griffin uses remote sensing to track the daily rhythms of trees. His work is helping to bring tree biology to life for students and the general public.
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October 16, 2019
Wrapping up a week-long bicycle trip that has brought climate science to underprivileged schools.
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October 14, 2019
Using drones, laser scanners, and high-resolution models, researchers hope to find out more about the processes driving rapid melting in this region.
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October 11, 2019
A PhD student explains what life is like on a week-long bicycle trip that’s bringing climate science to students from economically disadvantaged families.
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October 09, 2019
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October 08, 2019
Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer affiliated with Lamont’s Center for Climate and Life, explains how human-caused climate change is harming ocean health.
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October 08, 2019
On Saturday, October 5, Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory opened its doors to the public once again.
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October 07, 2019
A student-led Cycle for Science trip will follow the footsteps of an ice sheet that buried the NYC area under a mile of ice during the last ice age.
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October 04, 2019
A paleoecologist explains why it’s actually a bad idea to “drain the swamp.”
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October 02, 2019
In the 1960s, Pitman and his colleagues showed that the magnetic polarity of the seabed changes with time and space—a signal that the beds are expanding and moving.
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September 30, 2019
Visit us in Palisades, NY, for hands-on, family-friendly science activities and lectures — including a new panel that will address the challenges of reporting the climate story.
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September 26, 2019
In a hearing of the House Science Committee, the meteorologist weighed in on heat waves and hurricanes, and underscored the need for action.
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September 26, 2019
Short answer: Moderation is key.
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September 25, 2019
Pierre Dutrieux, a Lamont oceanographer and 2019 Climate and Life Fellow, discusses his Antarctic research and what the new IPCC report says about sea-level rise.
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September 25, 2019
Journalists at Univision teamed up with Lamont scientists to test how well Newark’s lead filters are working. The results support new findings from city officials.
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September 23, 2019
Climate change disrupts the water cycle in ways that could profoundly alter how we live our lives.
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September 20, 2019
Dozens of Earth Institute and Lamont staff and students took part in New York City’s Climate Strike march.
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September 19, 2019
A paleoclimatologist walks us through some of the natural causes of climate change — and why it’s important to take action on human-caused warming.
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September 19, 2019
Two Months in the Southern Ocean, for Science Under the leadership of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists, two different expeditions sailed to the stormy Southern Ocean to learn more about Earth’s climate history.
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September 19, 2019
Climatologist Radley Horton’s impactful research is matched by his commitment to communicating the under-appreciated threats associated with global warming.
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September 16, 2019
A team of researchers taught social science students to test for high fluoride levels in their own villages, and experimented with creative ways to get the word out about the dangers of fluorosis.
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September 12, 2019
The newly renovated research facility will host an educational mural that combines art and science.
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September 12, 2019
Join Lamont's Center for Climate and Life and our Earth Institute colleagues at a groundbreaking New York City climate event designed to inform and inspire.
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September 11, 2019
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September 11, 2019
Scientific experts from Lamont and leading finance professionals at AllianceBernstein are collaborating to create an intensive curriculum focused on how climate change can affect economic and financial outcomes.
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September 06, 2019
A new study reveals a surprising way in which lava influences marine ecology.
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September 04, 2019
Park Williams and Richard Seager, climate experts at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discuss why California wildfires are expected to expand and intensify with climate change.
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August 30, 2019
Sea level rise 3 million years ago may help predict the pace of what we can expect as our climate warms.
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August 22, 2019
A student research project unveils that tiny plastics in laundry detergents and fabrics could potentially have a big impact on ocean health.
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August 22, 2019
Lamont scientists representing a range of research disciplines and career stages are to receive honors from the internationally influential earth and space science organization.
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August 21, 2019
Two months at sea, collecting drill cores in the stormiest ocean on the planet, can feel both extremely epic and fairly routine.
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August 19, 2019
The changes could affect health, agriculture and ecosystems, the study suggests.
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August 14, 2019
Artificial and modified organisms could become essential tools to fight climate change, clean up pollution, protect biodiversity, and more.
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August 12, 2019
A new project from the Center for Sustainable Development and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will use education interventions to try to curb fluorosis, caused by high fluoride levels in drinking water, in Alirajpur, India.
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August 12, 2019
A new study shows, for the first time, evidence of a link between human-caused global warming and melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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August 07, 2019
Despite all the “Waiting on Weather” and “Running Away from Weather,” the expedition recovered exciting new sedimentary climate records in the remote and notoriously stormy Southern Ocean.
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August 07, 2019
Lower air pollution levels saved an estimated 5,660 lives in New York State in 2012, compared to 2002 levels, according to a new study.
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August 07, 2019
In the Southeastern United States, the increasing amount of rain during hurricane season is coming not from hurricanes but from non-tropical storms created by weather fronts, new research finds.
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August 05, 2019
We added a campaign monument to the tide gauge at Khepupara on the way to our last GPS and SET installation site at Patuakhali. We faced challenges such as bad roads and broken bridges, and leeches, but got the work done. The field work was now coming to a close.
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August 02, 2019
The American Meteorological Society will award him the Henry Stommel Research Medal for his research on the Southern Ocean and inter-basin circulation.
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August 02, 2019
We replaced the GPS at Khulna University, then met some colleagues in Barisal. We continued to Khepupara and the beach at Kuakata for more installations. The beach on the Bay of Bengal is fresh water in the summer due to the enormous water discharge at the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta.
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July 30, 2019
Short answer: A little bit goes a long way.
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July 30, 2019
Silting rivers and bad roads made it difficult to find a last site. After a successful installation and an upgrade to an existing GPS site, we left the boat for land. We then discovered the local river had washed away some of our equipment.
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July 26, 2019
As part of the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy, students undertake science courses that will serve as a foundational basis for tackling policy issues. Who better to learn from than the individuals who dominate earth science research?
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July 26, 2019
We sailed to Hiron Point in the Sundarban Mangrove Forest to upgrade old and install new equipment. I have been to this beautiful remote site several times before. After competing the work, we sailed for over a day to reach our next site on a primary school roof.
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July 26, 2019
By Elizabeth Case and Jonny Kingslake
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July 24, 2019
By working a 16-hour day, we managed to get both GPS and SETs completed at our first field site. We then sailed into the Sundarban Mangrove Forest, the world’s largest, to visit an existing site and make measurements.
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July 24, 2019
Climate scientists often invoke the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age as natural worldwide climate swings predating human influences. They may not have worked the way we think.
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July 24, 2019
Study picks apart factors that caused severe, long-lasting droughts and suggests increased risk for future.
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July 23, 2019
I am back in Bangladesh for a new project examining the balance between sea level rise, land subsidence and sedimentation. We will be installing, repairing or upgrading equipment to measure changes to the landscape.
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July 22, 2019
A new study reveals how local factors influence the Ross Ice Shelf’s stability, refining predictions of how it will change and influence sea rise in the future.
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July 22, 2019
Millions of years ago, vegetation across much of the world underwent a transformation as grasses with a new way of doing photosynthesis displaced previously dominant plants, shrubs and trees. A new study examines what got these plants started, and why they spread so far and wide.
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July 19, 2019
Recovering ancient seafloor sediments requires complicated machinery and a skilled crew.
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July 18, 2019
The Apollo missions brought back unique samples from the moon that have been analyzed by researchers around the world. This data is getting lost and forgotten. A new database collects it and makes it easy to find and use.
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July 17, 2019
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory director Sean Solomon discusses how Apollo 11 affected the scientific community, how Lamont was involved, and what comes next for lunar exploration.
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July 17, 2019
Hundreds of experts gathered on campus to discuss possibilities for protecting coastal communities and withdrawing when we can no longer safely inhabit our coastlines.
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July 16, 2019
Climate change could worsen China’s already bad ozone pollution problem — but a new study shows that it doesn’t have to be that way.
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July 16, 2019
A scientist explains how she lines up wiggles on a screen to recover the missing layers in cores drilled from the bottom of the ocean.
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July 15, 2019
A new study combs through the many factors that can promote wildfires in California, and concludes that in many, though not all, cases, warming climate is the decisive driver.
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July 11, 2019
It took six days to sail to Point Nemo, the most inaccessible point of the ocean on this planet, to drill a sample from the ocean floor.
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July 11, 2019
Polar explorer Robin Bell testifies before the U.S. House Committee on Science Space and Technology about the threats of melting ice sheets.
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July 09, 2019
New research will advance understanding of how wildfires may evolve in the future, and how we can most effectively respond to them.
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July 09, 2019
A new study finds that ENSO has caused widespread, simultaneous crop failures in recent history, running counter to the long-held assumption that crop failures in geographically distant breadbasket regions are unrelated.
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June 28, 2019
Scientists aboard the R/V Joides Resolution prepare to set sail into the Southern Ocean.
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June 28, 2019
Between 2016 and 2018, the Center for Climate and Life awarded $2.1 million to 10 leading scientists who are bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most pressing issues of our times.
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June 24, 2019
Observational data confirms that Hadley cell circulation is weakening, which has important consequences for future rainfall in the subtropics.
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June 24, 2019
Climate models predict that as a result of human-induced climate change, the surface of the Pacific Ocean should be warming. But one key part is not.
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June 21, 2019
In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S. Northeast coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery: a gigantic aquifer of relatively fresh water trapped in porous sediments lying below the salty ocean.
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June 20, 2019
Warming temperatures, rising seas, and more extreme weather are going to cost us. But they’ll create new business opportunities, too.
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June 19, 2019
A new study is the latest and perhaps most convincing indication that climate change is eating the Himalayas’ glaciers, potentially threatening water supplies for hundreds of millions of people downstream across much of Asia.
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June 12, 2019
The impacts of climate change don’t always come one at a time. A recent workshop focused on what’s needed to predict and adapt when multiple climate-related disasters happen simultaneously.
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June 12, 2019
Research by Lamont’s Johnny Kingslake and Elizabeth Case advances understanding of ice sheet dynamics and how our world may change in the coming centuries.
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June 07, 2019
A new study reveals the inner workings of tidally triggered earthquakes and finds that even the slightest stress can set off a tremor.
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June 06, 2019
The three new Fellows, all scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will pursue high-risk, high-reward research that furthers understanding of how climate change impacts human sustainability.
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June 06, 2019
Lynn Sykes, a pivotal figure in the development of plate tectonics, discusses a new memoir of his career.
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June 05, 2019
The annual survey of biodiversity in New York City’s waterways had a great turnout on Saturday.
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May 31, 2019
Lamont paleoclimatologist William D’Andrea studies past climates to see how societies such as the Vikings and the Rapanui of Easter Island dealt with environmental change. His work may help us adapt to a hotter future.
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May 27, 2019
ROSETTA-Ice project reveals that local ocean currents may play a critical role in the ice shelf’s future retreat.
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May 24, 2019
Join us on Saturday, June 1st to explore one of New York’s most underrated treasures: our productive waterways!
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May 24, 2019
A new study finds that as air circulation patterns change with the climate, coastal states could get hit with stronger hurricanes.
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May 16, 2019
Climatologist Radley Horton from Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory testified before the Senate’s Subcommittee on Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather. Senator and chairman of the subcommittee Cory Gardner, R-Colo., convened the hearing — titled “Atmospheric Science Research and Forecasting Innovation” — to examine the current state of atmospheric and forecast research.
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May 15, 2019
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the planet’s most powerful and arguably most important. It is the only one to flow clear around the globe without getting diverted by any landmass, sending up to 150 times the flow of all the world’s rivers clockwise around the frozen continent.
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May 10, 2019
A science career can offer unique opportunities and challenges for juggling work and family.
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May 01, 2019
In an unusual new study, scientists say they have detected a growing fingerprint of human-driven global warming on global drought conditions starting as far back as 1900.
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April 30, 2019
A new book, the second in a series of primers with the Earth Institute imprint, provides an interdisciplinary overview drought, bringing together many fields including climate science, hydrology and ecology.
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April 30, 2019
Columbia Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seismologist Göran Ekström has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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April 29, 2019
A new study suggests that bacteria may respire more carbon dioxide from the shallow oceans to the air as oceans warm, reducing the deep oceans’ ability to store carbon.
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April 22, 2019
A Lamont climate researcher breaks down why our atmosphere is the way it is, how it’s changed over time, and what the future may hold.
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April 19, 2019
A Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oceanographer answers this deep question from a reader as part of our Earth Month Q&A on Instagram.
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April 19, 2019
The new findings offer clues about how the solar system formed and how rocky planets change over time.
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April 18, 2019
Despite some unpredictable Antarctic weather, the final G-055 team member makes it off the ice.
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April 17, 2019
In celebration of Earth Month and Earth Day, our scientists are tackling reader questions on science and sustainability.
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April 17, 2019
In a new study, scientists use urine salts to reconstruct the timing and scale of the Neolithic revolution at a Turkish archaeological site.
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April 16, 2019
The paleoclimatologist and marine geologist talks about why the miles and miles of marine sediment samples in Lamont’s Core Repository are so important.
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April 15, 2019
New method helps determine how quickly silicates wear down over time, which is key to understanding natural processes that remove CO2 from air.
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April 11, 2019
New research shows that the Larsen C ice shelf—the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, located just south of the former Larsen B shelf—experienced an unusual spike in late summer and early autumn surface melting in the years 2015 to 2017.
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April 09, 2019
The Antarctic field team returns to humanity, showers, and hot breakfasts.
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