Lamont’s Marco Tedesco (right) measures the intensity and spectra of sunlight reflected off of ice in a spot near Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland.
October 14, 2019

New Project Will Study Greenland’s Helheim Glacier in Unprecedented Detail

Using drones, laser scanners, and high-resolution models, researchers hope to find out more about the processes driving rapid melting in this region.
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underwater ocean scene
October 8, 2019

Grim Projections for the Ocean—and the Life Within It

Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains how human-caused climate change is harming ocean health.
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September 25, 2019

Center for Climate and Life Fellow Explains IPCC Sea Level Warning

Pierre Dutrieux, an oceanographer at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and 2019 Center for Climate and Life Fellow, discusses his Antarctic research and what the new IPCC report says about sea level rise.
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September 20, 2019

Economists Are Downplaying Many Major Climate Risks, Says Report

Policymakers have been receiving economic assessments of future climate change impacts which omit the biggest risks, says a new report coauthored by experts from Columbia's Earth Institute.
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September 16, 2019

Two Months in the Southern Ocean, for Science

In 2019, two International Ocean Discovery Program expeditions to learn more about Earth’s climate history sailed under the leadership of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists.
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