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 superpower he brings to climate science – he credits optimism and resilience for …
By Kimberly Henrickson Dec. 10, 2025 Climate scientist Alexzander “Zander” Roman knows his rocks. Roman, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine, is hunting rocks for clues to construct a timeline of the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age is estimated to have lasted from the 1300s through …
By Jack Austin and Kimberly Henrickson, Nov. 12, 2025 As global temperatures climb and seas continue to rise, oceanographer Lynne Talley warns that the accelerating melt of Antarctic ice threatens to erase entire island nations within decades. From her long-term research in the Southern Ocean, Talley has traced how warming waters and shifting circulation patterns …
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By Louise Kim and Jessica Savage Medill Reports, Dec. 15, 2023 Gina Moseley scales mountains and explores remote lands all in the name of understanding how the climate has been changing across hundreds of thousands of years and how that impacts current accelerating change. “It’s really important to understand what the climate’s doing, what …
