March 25, 2019
Hurricane Maria Study Warns: Climate-Driven Storms May Raze Many Tropical Forests
A new study led by Columbia University scientist Maria Uriarte shows that damage inflicted on trees in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria was unprecedented in modern times.
March 25, 2019
Deep-Sea Drillers Investigate Shedding of Antarctic Icebergs
Scientists are sailing to remote areas of the Southern Ocean to drill cores from the bottom that they hope will contain clues to past rapid changes in the Antarctic ice, and how it may react to warming climate today.
March 21, 2019
New Project Will Tackle Amazonian Development Challenges From Space
Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society is part of a new project that will use satellite imagery to address environment and development challenges across the Amazon Basin.
March 20, 2019
Changes in Ocean ‘Conveyor Belt’ Foretold Abrupt Climate Changes by Four Centuries
A new study led by scientists at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts.
March 15, 2019
Faculty Q&A: Sean Solomon on Lamont-Doherty, Earth Science and Space
As a scientist, Sean Solomon has studied Mercury, Venus and Mars. Now he heads Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, whose researchers study planet Earth, from its deepest ocean to its highest peak.