Students will make their own glacier goo, take a virtual drone flight over the ocean, and much more in these live sessions taught by Earth Institute experts.
News and Events
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May 15, 2020
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May 14, 2020
A new primer lays out the basics of climate science in compact form.
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May 08, 2020
A new study has identified thousands of incidents of previously rare or unprecedented extreme heat/humidity combinations in parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and North America, including in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.
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May 07, 2020
Widely considered a screen against contamination, clay layers may actually enhance arsenic leakage into some aquifers, study finds.
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May 05, 2020
What, when, and how to shoot photos of scientific fieldwork.
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May 04, 2020
Driven by changing climate, a uniquely resilient organism is taking over the Arabian Sea, disrupting food chains, fisheries, oil refineries, and water desalination plants.
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April 30, 2020Earth Institute LIVE is a virtual platform dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to you.
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April 30, 2020
In a new study, researchers have proposed a mechanism for how mega-canyons under northern Greenland’s ice sheet formed: from a series of catastrophic outburst floods that suddenly and repeatedly drained lakes of melting ice-sheet water.
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April 29, 2020
Learn how to design your own microbe, decode Python script, and much more in these live sessions taught by Earth Institute experts.
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April 28, 2020
Estimates say the city releases about 50 million tons of carbon a year, but no one has actually measured it. A new project is trying to change that.
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April 24, 2020
New research shows that a signature of metal ions in urine may be an accurate indicator of one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
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April 22, 2020
On Earth Day and every day, The Earth Institute and its Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory work to understand and protect our planet.
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April 22, 2020On this 50th anniversary, our Earth Institute and Lamont communities share their hopes and aspirations for this Earth Day and humankind’s next 50 years.
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April 21, 2020
Rapid development in flood-prone zones during recent decades helped boost the amount of property exposed to the 2018 hurricane substantially, a new study says.
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April 21, 2020
It also compares the effectiveness of medical-grade masks with homemade ones, and tests the feasibility of improving masks with homemade nose clips.
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