The report describes how “negative emissions technologies” that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change.

A pioneering statistician and world-leading cancer expert, Tavaré will head up the newly established Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics at Columbia University.

While the Trump administration is doing its best to ignore recent findings, an upcoming report will focus on helping cities, states, and businesses develop mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Róisín Commane, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and her colleagues have discovered surprising levels and unexpected types of pollution that seem to be originating in Africa.

A new study coauthored by Andrew Juhl, a biologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, shows that fecal bacteria from sewage can persist in far greater quantities in near-shore sediments than in the water of the Hudson River.

The current megadrought in the American West may be one of the most severe in the past 1200 years—and research by Columbia bioclimatologist Park Williams found climate change is partially to blame.

By investigating the phenomenal memory of chickadees, Dmitriy Aronov brings a fresh approach to studying how our own brains remember. Now he’s being recognized as one of the nation’s top early-career scientists.