Researchers are trying to come up with more regionally focused forecasts, said Suzana J. Camargo, a research professor at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, but that is “a harder problem.”

A prototype developed by engineers at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute detects whom you are listening to and amplifies only that speaker’s voice; a potential solution to the “cocktail party problem.”

Maria Uriarte, a professor in the department of ecology, evolution and environmental biology at Columbia University, is using A.I. to try to understand how Hurricane Maria in 2017 altered plant life in Puerto Rico.

Human activity was changing the Earth's drought and rainfall patterns as far back as the early 20th century, new research by Columbia University scientists shows.

The Earth's poles are warming faster than any other place on the planet. Columbia climate scientist Maureen Raymo is among the scientists on the JOIDES Resolution investigating the climate history of Antarctica.

Marco Tedesco, a professor in atmospheric sciences at Columbia's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. He monitors behavior of the cryosphere — the part of earth’s water system that is frozen. He says melting of this extent shouldn’t begin until May.

“The most exciting part of this is there’s nothing you can do with modern astronomy or math that can tell you what planetary motions were actually like hundreds of millions of years ago,” says Paul Olsen, a Columbia paleontologist. But the sedimentary records are there, waiting to reveal