January 20, 2020
climate change
climate response
A new Columbia study finds that ozone-depleting substances caused about a third of all global warming from 1955 to 2005, and half of Arctic warming and sea ice loss during that period.
January 13, 2020
climate change
climate response
Thousands more people could die from injuries each year as rising temperatures in the United States affect people’s behavior, according to a new Columbia study.
December 17, 2019
climate change
climate science
Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold period in Scotland in the 1690s that caused immense suffering. It may have lessons for Brexit-era politics.
December 9, 2019
climate change
climate response
food security
Scientists have identified systematic meanders in the northern jet stream that cause simultaneous crop-damaging heat waves in widely separated regions—a previously unknown threat to global food production that could worsen with warming.
December 3, 2019
climate change
climate response
On a peninsula within sight of New York City, researchers are studying trees dating as far back as the early 1800s. Rising seas and more powerful storms, both fueled by climate change, could eventually spell their end.