“Last week there was a strong monsoon depression over North Bay of Bengal which caused heavy rains over Cox Bazar area,” said Nachiketa Acharya, a climate scientist at Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society.

The West Antarctic ice sheet shrank dramatically even when Earth was not as warm as today, says a new study co-authored by Columbia climate scientist Jonathan Kingslake.

A recent study led by Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory found many New Yorkers could be living with a legacy of soil contamination and not even know it.

From black holes to dark matter to gravitational waves, Greene, a theoretical physicist at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, dishes on some of the biggest questions in physics.

A group of researchers from Columbia University, in collaboration with the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases, have launched a free app to track New York City's tick populations.

Tomato paste versus ketchup: Einat Lev, a volcanologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains how magma consistency influences whether a volcano erupts explosively like Guatemala's Fuego, or slowly like Hawaii's Kilauea.

As the moon pulls away from the Earth, our planet’s rotation is slowing, making our days 1/75,000 second longer each year, found a new study co-authored by Alberto Malinverno, a research professor at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.