June 7, 2018
Ethiopia Establishes National Framework for Climate Services
In Ethiopia, climate variability can have a big impact on food, water, and health. Columbia experts are assisting with the development of a system to monitor and predict climate that will help keep people safe.
May 30, 2018
Increasing Heat Is Driving Off Clouds That Dampen California Wildfires
Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and a warming climate are causing cloud cover to plummet in southern coastal California, leading to increased risk of wildfires.
May 28, 2018
Climate-Related Flooding May Quickly Disrupt Global Trade Chains
Intensifying river floods caused by global warming may hamper national economies worldwide, and effects might propagate through global trade and supply networks, a new study says.
May 28, 2018
New Research Finds Tall and Older Amazonian Forests More Resistant to Droughts
A new study led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, shows that forest height and age directly impact the carbon cycle in the Amazon.
May 22, 2018
How Australia Got Planted
A new study coauthored by Columbia climate scientist Pratigya Polissar has uncovered when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first expanded across the continent.