Marco Tedesco, a glaciologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the lead author of the Arctic Report Card chapter on Greenland, discusses some of the changes he has been seeing in Greenland.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will support research by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists on the changing patterns of Arctic ice and other physical characteristics in Kotzebue Sound and the Chukchi Sea, using a combination of remote sensing technologies and indigenous knowledge.

Bedrock drilled from deep under the Greenland ice sheet contains evidence that the island was nearly denuded of ice for an extended time during the last million years. The finding suggests that the ice sheet is more vulnerable than thought.

At the 2016 Society for Neuroscience conference, Zuckerman Institute Principal Investigator Sarah Woolley, PhD, discussed how the brain science of birdsong lends insight into learning and language.

As long as humans are writing software, there will be coding mistakes for malicious hackers to exploit. Code-shuffling software developed at Columbia effectively eliminates opportunities for hackers to reuse code to take control of a machine.

Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and other institutions are engaged in a long-term project to sort out what allows trees to survive or not in the borderline environment of the far north.

Gene mutations that affect drug metabolism may explain higher hospitalization rates for some older adults taking multiple medications, according to researchers from Columbia University.