A new study has uncovered when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first expanded across the continent.
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May 21, 2018
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May 18, 2018
The President’s Global Innovation Fund will provide grants to three Earth Institute research projects.
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May 14, 2018
Columbia scientists recently visited the Caribbean island of Barbados, whose fossilized coral reefs contain an exquisite record of how the ocean has risen and fallen in the past.
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May 07, 2018
Scientists drilling deep into ancient rocks in the Arizona desert say they have documented a gradual shift in Earth’s orbit that repeats regularly every 405,000 years, playing a role in natural climate swings.
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May 02, 2018
Sediments deposited over thousands of years provide a window to the past—and may perhaps shed light on what happened to the island’s now-lost civilization.
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May 02, 2018
Research by tree-ring scientist Laia Andreu-Hayles will provide much-needed observational climate data for Bolivia and Peru and insight into the climate sensitivity of tropical tree species in the Andes.
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May 01, 2018
Climate scientist Radley Horton is bringing the effects of sea level rise to the attention of decision-makers and fostering discussions to help society confront climate change.
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May 01, 2018
Small island nations are on the frontlines of climate change—and for some, retreat is not an option.
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April 30, 2018
An international collaboration will study the wasting of the Thwaites glacier, which already accounts for around 4 percent of current global sea-level rise, and could collapse within decades or centuries.
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April 25, 2018
Geoscientist Wally Broecker explains the money that’s backing climate denialism, and what it will take to fight it.
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April 24, 2018
Polar scientists Marco Tedesco and Robin Bell provide a primer on how climate change will impact our coastlines.
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April 24, 2018
A new study suggests we may be underestimating the chances of extreme heat and droughts in Europe under climate change.
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April 23, 2018
For decades, scientists believed that the Greenland Ice Sheet is relatively stable compared with the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Two Lamont scientists questioned this assumption about Greenland’s ice and wanted to take a much closer look.
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April 13, 2018
Coastal waters play an important role in the carbon cycle by absorbing carbon into sediments or transferring it to the open ocean, a new study confirms.
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April 11, 2018
Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farming and other pursuits could be huge.
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