What’s a bog corer? And how do seeds help scientists learn about the earth’s past? A paleoecologist explains the most important items in her toolkit.
News and Events
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December 19, 2018
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December 14, 2018
Atmospheric scientists discover surprising levels and unexpected types of pollution that seem to be originating in Africa.
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December 13, 2018
The current megadrought in the American West may be one of the most severe in the past 1200 years—and climate change is partially to blame.
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December 13, 2018
A new study shows that fecal bacteria from sewage can persist in far greater quantities in near-shore sediments than in the water of the Hudson River.
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December 12, 2018
But there’s a pretty simple solution that could protect a lot of people.
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December 10, 2018
Yutian Wu received funding from the Center for Climate and Life to investigate whether the loss of Arctic sea ice promotes severe weather over North America.
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December 03, 2018
The American Geophysical Union fall meeting is being held Dec. 10-14 in Washington, D.C. Here is a chronological guide to key talks and other events from Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
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November 27, 2018
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that limiting global warming to 1.5˚C will require removing CO2 from the atmosphere. How feasible is this?
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November 19, 2018
A concerted, multidisciplinary, and international effort is needed to tackle this complexity, scientists argue in a paper released today.
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November 14, 2018
A Q&A with Jason Smerdon, coauthor of the newly revised Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future.
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November 14, 2018
A guide to wildfire experts at the Earth Institute.
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November 12, 2018
Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has found that rising temperatures influence wildfires in the American West.
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November 12, 2018
I had one last day installing seismometers with the team, then left for Mandalay. After a breakfast with colleagues, I had a free day to explore Mandalay Hill.
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November 10, 2018
With the GPS done, I joined the seismologists installing 32 stations in Myanmar. We finished the preparations and then headed out to the field in three teams.
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November 06, 2018
On the way back to Kale, we stopped at a Catholic church where one of the seismometers will be deployed. The seismic team is now in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital preparing for the seismic instrument deployment.
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