February 19, 2020
climate response
Earth Institute
The projects include one on ending toxic arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh; one focused on efficiently using water resources for farm and food management; and a third on removing carbon from the atmosphere.
January 27, 2020
climate change
Earth Institute
Noted climate justice essayist Mary Annaïse Heglar will spend the next six months at Columbia University under a newly launched writer-in-residence program.
May 10, 2019
climate change
climate response
Earth Institute
Years before Alex Halliday joined Columbia University’s Earth Institute as its director, he was changing the field of geochemistry. Halliday was recognized in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2019 for his pioneering research.
February 5, 2019
awards
climate response
Earth Institute
The world-renowned geoscientist is recognized for revolutionizing the world of isotopes. The investiture ceremony will take place at Buckingham Palace on May 9, 2019.
September 18, 2018
Earth Institute
ecology
Hudson River
The plan reviews the current state of the Hudson River estuary and outlines ways to clean it up and reduce the impacts from development and climate change.