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- December 15, 2021
- Carly Menker
Columbia University Ph.D. student Celeste Pallone devotes her research time observing Eastern Equatorial Pacific dwelling planktonic foraminifera – very tiny creatures that can give huge
- December 7, 2021
- Sarah Elizabeth Anderson
Primed by a drought that has lasted longer than the 1930s Dust Bowl, wildfires scorched over 5 million acres of land in the western United
- December 18, 2020
- Shivani Majmudar
COVID-19 swept the world, with little regard for anyone who stood in its path. Within weeks, the virus killed thousands, isolated people in their homes
- December 17, 2020
- Marisa Sloan
Faced with a challenge as mammoth as climate change, scientists are turning to some very tiny organisms for insight — coccolithophores, the single-celled algae that
- November 19, 2020
- Grace Elizabeth Rodgers
At the first 2020 Presidential debate, President Donald Trump said that Green New Deal supporters “want to take out the cows” to reduce greenhouse gas
- December 20, 2018
- ksimpson
Columbia University Geology Professor Wally Broecker, the pioneering grandfather of climate science, laid it on the line. The two ways we know of to bring
- December 18, 2018
- hmagnuson
Climate scientists veterans Richard Alley, Wally Broecker and George Denton have witnessed immense changes during their decades-spanning careers. They’re buoyed by scientific advances, but also
- November 15, 2018
- jmelero
Climate change is rapidly taking the world as we know it into uncharted territory. What we do next and how quickly we do it can
- November 13, 2018
- vnikolas
“We have to put a price on carbon,” Columbia University scientist Wallace Broecker, the geoclimatologist who coined the phrase “global warming” in a 1975 study,
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