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Lava, actually: Oxford planetary physicist debuts predicted magma exoplanet

By Julia Levy,
Medill News Service, March 9
Planetary physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert of Oxford University treats sub-Neptune exoplanets as boulders scattered throughout the universe. Akin to how rock formations and glaciers give scientists a better

What ancient sediments at the bottom of the ocean can teach us about climate change

By Rachel Duckett,
Dec. 20, 2025

Columbia University researchers are using grains of sediment left behind on the ocean floor millions of years ago to track the movement of icebergs through the Southern Ocean’s “Iceberg Alley,” just east of the Drake

From Wall Street to climate modeling: MIT scientist applies market economics and math to predict accelerating climate change

By Emma Conkle and Kimberly Henrickson
Dec. 28, 2025

After honing his analytical skills in the finance industry on Wall Street, Vince Cooper now applies his talents to help predict abrupt climate change in a warming world. But that’s not the only

Inside Climate Justice Now: A New Blueprint for Collaborative Climate Action – Book Review

By Jack Austin,
Dec. 28, 2025

In their new book Climate Justice Now, lead editors Joerg Schaefer, Nikhar Gaikwad and Rebecca Marwege take readers inside a rare kind of climate collaboration — one that bridges science, politics, and philosophy to rethink

Listening to Antarctica: Seismic Thunder Beneath Thwaites Glacier Reveal Clues to Potential Collapse

By Jack Austin
Dec. 18. 2025

Amanda Willet’s research sits at the center of a high-stakes equation: predicting how fast sea levels will rise — and how coastal cities can defend themselves. An overestimate could waste billions of dollars. An underestimate

How an ancient glacier is helping scientists predict climate impacts on ocean currents

By Lily Carey
Medill New Service, Dec. 23, 2024

Over 70,000 years ago, much of modern-day Europe was covered by a vast ice sheet — one that was slowly growing in size as global temperatures dropped.

This Eurasian ice sheet accumulated mass over

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