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.
News and Events
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June 19, 2019
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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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