A recent study provides a rough timeline, but there’s still time to save them if we cut our carbon emissions.
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November 30, 2021
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November 29, 2021
These baseball-style cards highlight a few of our amazing scientists, and can now be downloaded for free.
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November 20, 2021
The research project, dubbed SWAIS 2C, will investigate the sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to global warming of 2 degrees Centigrade.
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November 15, 2021
In 2020, mortality rates climbed in most of the world, but dropped in the Bangladeshi countryside, for reasons that are still unknown.
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November 11, 2021
Will overshooting 1.5°C of warming push us over climate tipping points, triggering irreversible and abrupt changes?
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November 08, 2021
A new study suggests that a million years ago, glaciers began sticking more persistently to their beds, triggering cycles of longer ice ages.
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October 29, 2021
One of the central tenets of Next Gen is the focus on two way communication. This includes not only reaching out to community members to listen to their perspectives, but also coming back to share our findings and observations with that community, and when possible even more broadly.
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October 24, 2021
A new study bolsters the idea that the uplifts of the Himalayas and Andes that began tens of millions years ago helped trigger the many ice ages that followed.
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October 19, 2021
Copple, a recent alumna of the Sustainability Science program, shares how her experiences at Columbia have helped her make an impact on climate change research.
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October 19, 2021
She’s using air quality sensors to measure how air pollution impacts disadvantaged people in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.
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October 14, 2021
Scientists have observed and learned to use subatomic phenomena on the earth’s surface. Now, for the first time, they can see similar things deep within the planet.
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October 14, 2021
Seals have been a staple for the coastal village of Kotzebue for generations. Rapid changes in sea ice driven by ocean warmth are presenting a challenge.
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October 12, 2021
Researchers have zeroed in on what they call the Last Ice Area, where the last year-round Arctic ice, and associated ecosystems may–or may not–survive in a warmer future.
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October 07, 2021
Up to now, it has been thought that the two-ton Darwin’s ground sloth,, which lived up to 10,000 years ago, was strictly vegetarian. Apparently not.
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October 04, 2021
Scientists can now determine what role climate change plays in making extreme weather events more frequent and intense.
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