Josie Brooks reflects on an exhibit at Maine’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, which explores Inuit food traditions, hunting, ...

The new initiative at Columbia’s Climate School is designed to strengthen university-wide collaboration on issues spanning ...

Panelists highlighted environmental justice, local partnerships, New York’s climate laws and the need for equitable solutions ...

This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as ...

This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as well as new research on unexpected trends in U.S. extreme rainfall. Here are ...

Smoke from Canadian Wildfires over New York City in June 2023. Credit: Newell Reinvention via Commons Compounding effects can be very powerful. The damage from one event can be catalyzed or amplified ...

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas, causing much more warming than carbon dioxide on a unit-for-unit basis—and a new, uniquely long-term study of emissions at a New Jersey landfill ...

At the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, we work with governments, multilateral institutions and coalitions of financiers on the planning, investment, policy and financial architecture that ...

Every month, researchers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and across the Columbia Climate School publish work that deepens our understanding of the planet. Scientists are exploring whether adding ...

Villarrica volcano rises above the town of Pucón, situated on Lake Villarrica. Photo: Einat Lev The problem of the moment was power. On the crumbly rim of Villarrica, one of Chile’s most active and ...

The Columbia Climate School and the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering (EEE) of the Columbia Engineering School are delighted to announce that Yan Yao has joined our faculty, effective ...