Einat Lev, volcanologist and assistant professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains volcano jargon and the difference between lava and magma.

“We keep calling these storms a wake-up call, but they keep turning into snooze alarms,” said Irwin Redlener, the director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, told me. “When the cameras go away, we slip into complacency.”

How does a decline in cloud cover over southern California increase wildfire risk? Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains his latest research.

Research led by Charles Zuker, a neurobiologist at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, identified two specific regions of the brain which respond to sweet and bitter tastes—and how to alter those responses.

"People gravitate towards how many people were killed immediately from drowning or falling debris. But the reality is the much, much bigger problem is the long-term inability to get to medical care," said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University

Yaniv Erlich, an associate professor at Columbia and the chief science officer at the DNA-testing company MyHeritage, discusses genes and intelligence.

Scientists affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University broke new ground by assessing how river flooding pulsates through global supply chains.