June 18, 2018

Center for Climate and Life Names Yutian Wu Recipient of 2018 Fellowship

Yutian Wu, an atmospheric scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seeking to understand how the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice will impact North American weather extremes, is the Center’s newest Fellow.
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June 13, 2018

Shrinking Ice Sheet Made A Surprising Comeback

Thousands of years ago, the West Antarctic ice sheet shrank dramatically—then grew back in an unexpected way. The new findings could help to refine predictions about how today’s warming climate will impact polar ice and sea level rise.
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June 13, 2018

How Will People Move as Climate Changes?

A new model developed by Kyle Davis, a Columbia postdoctoral researcher, estimates how many climate migrants there will be, where they are likely to go, and what effects they might have on the places to which they move.
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June 7, 2018

Ethiopia Establishes National Framework for Climate Services

In Ethiopia, climate variability can have a big impact on food, water, and health. Columbia experts are assisting with the development of a system to monitor and predict climate that will help keep people safe.
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June 6, 2018

Quantum Interference May Be Key To Smaller Insulators

Researchers from Columbia University, Shanghai Normal University, and the University of Copenhagen have synthesized the first molecule capable of insulating at the nanometer scale more effectively than a vacuum barrier.
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June 6, 2018

Suzanne Bakken Named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Bakken, a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and member of the Data Science Institute, was chosen for the post by the AMIA Board of Directors.
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June 4, 2018

Days on Earth Are Getting Longer. You Can Thank the Moon, Not the Seasons.

A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet’s relationship to the moon and other planetary bodies shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted about 18.7 hours.
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