From polar bears to budget cuts, a climate reporter’s job is never easy. But for some, it’s worth the struggle.
News and Events
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March 12, 2019
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March 08, 2019
A discussion on the challenges women scientists often face, and what we can all do to help.
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March 07, 2019
The world’s leading earth scientist is not allowing collective inaction to absolve her of personal responsibility.
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March 07, 2019
Rainy weather is becoming increasingly common over parts of the Greenland ice sheet, triggering sudden melting events that are eating at the ice and priming the surface for more widespread future melting, says a new study.
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March 05, 2019
A new project is looking for the fingerprints of climate change in the hurricanes of today, so we’ll know what to expect in the near future.
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March 04, 2019
Satellite imagery of earth’s vegetation, measurements of carbon dioxide in the air and computer models all help scientists understand how climate is affecting carbon dynamics and the world’s forests.
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March 01, 2019
Measurements of stable isotopes in tree rings may expand the climate information that scientists can get from old trees.
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March 01, 2019
Newly analyzed drill cores taken from the bottom of Greece’s Gulf of Corinth show that sediment flow into the basin has varied dramatically over the past 500,000-plus years, as the earth passed in and out of ice ages, and humans later dominated the surrounding landscape.
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February 28, 2019
New developments in climate research led by atmospheric scientist Yutian Wu are adding to our understanding of the “polar vortex” and other extreme events.
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February 27, 2019
In a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Environment, Radley Horton delivered sobering remarks about how climate change will impact our coastlines, economy, and society at large.
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February 26, 2019
The students are using deep learning and neural networks to create an automated system that classifies plankton for large-scale oceanographic studies.
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February 22, 2019
On February 21, scientists learned the essentials of science communication during a half-day workshop at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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February 20, 2019
Moving a team from a science base into a deep field camp comes with a mix of high energy and optimism. Yes there is always a bit of concern that the necessary plans are in place for the operation to be successful, but time is always a factor pushing to move things along.
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February 20, 2019
Tributes continue pouring in as Lamont mourns the loss of Wally Broecker "grandfather of climate science."
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February 19, 2019
Wallace Broecker, a geochemist who initiated key research into the history of earth’s climate and humans’ influence upon it, died Feb. 18 in New York. He was 87.
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