Climate science tells us that in the future, combinations of heat and humidity could be so extreme that the evaporation of human sweat may not sufficiently cool our bodies, say Columbia climate scientists Radley Horton and Ethan Coffel in a New York Times op-ed.

Alex Halliday, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, explains that the effects of the increased heat are much broader than simply higher temperatures.

Lisa Goddard, director of Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society, compared the atmosphere to “a big giant sponge” that grows heavy with moisture and, at some point when it’s too heavy, has to be squeezed out, resulting in intense rains.

Park Williams at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory says the hot summer was a giveaway that this year would bring significant fires to California.

Anthony Fitzpatrick, a biophysicist at Columbia Zuckerman Institute, recently became the first person to freeze a protein that came directly from the brain of a woman who died from Alzheimer's and map its structure.

The new mission picks up where NASA's MESSENGER mission, left off in 2015. Spacecraft had never spent so long close to the sun," says Sean Solomon, director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who led the MESSENGER mission.

The tsunami that recently devastated the city of Palu on Sulawesi was associated with a “strike-slip” fault, where two plates are sliding past each other. “It’s not something that you would’ve predicted,” says Jim Gaherty, a seismologist at Columbia Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory.