According to geologist and paleontologist Paul Olsen of Columbia University, the keys to the history of not only our planet, but also the solar system and the galaxy may be found beneath our feet.

Three Columbia researchers are finding ways to pull some of the carbon dioxide that’s causing global warming out of the atmosphere and store it away. It’s called carbon capture and storage, and experts increasingly say it’s going to be essential to saving the planet.

Disaster movies don’t often get Oscar nods, but they are getting attention from climate change scientists. Kate Marvel, an associate research scientist at Columbia University discusses what Hollywood gets right and wrong about climate.

Wallace S. Broecker, one of the first scientists to sound the alarm about climate change and the researcher who popularized the term “global warming,” died on Monday in Manhattan.

Peter De Menocal, Dean of Science for Columbia, met with climate activist Alexandria Villasenor and has rarely felt so humbled, he says — or so filled with hope.

Peter deMenocal and Kate Marvel, Columbia University climate scientists, explain what scientists really understand about the climate and how — and why there's reason for hope.

The Lava Project also gives more opportunities to collect data on lava flows to volcanologists and geologists, like Einat Lev at Columbia University, who is often at the mercy of nature.