Kartik Chandran, a professor at Columbia University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, explains that the United States doesn’t have systems in place to effectively recycle most straws. They quite literally fall through the cracks.
Research co-authored by Earth Institute climate scientist Susanne Bauer says that the cooling effect of aerosols is so large that it has masked as much as half of the warming effect from greenhouse gases.
In celebration of the 2018 Winter Olympics, Silver Medalist Paul Wylie joins Rui Costa and Nathaniel Sawtell, neuroscientists at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, on a journey inside the minds of some of the world’s most elite athletes.
The water supply is running dry in Cape Town, South Africa. Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia Water Center, explains the water shortage and why places in the U.S. could be at risk, too.