The current El Niño will break all sea-surface temperature records to date and will very likely deliver unprecedented weather ...

Through Columbia Climate School programs, students conducted hands-on climate research to build scientific, analytical and ...

New analyses of ancient cattle, sheep and goat bones suggest that the rapid spread of introduced livestock 1,200 years ago ...

Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains is a two-week campus-based program in Vermont for high school students to mobilize action, drive impact and effect change in response to our warming ...

Led by researchers at NOAA and Columbia University, the Constraining Ocean Carbon with Optimized Observing (COCO2) project ...

Scientists are studying fossil coral reefs in the Cook Islands to reconstruct sea levels during the Last Interglacial, and hoping to improve projections of future change.

Through Columbia Climate School and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory programs, students conducted hands-on climate research to build scientific, analytical and communication skills. Marine carbon ...

The June heat waves that roiled the U.S. put tremendous pressure on the electric grid as air conditioning demand soared, resulting in rolling blackouts and power outages. Heavy rains in Midwestern ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch, Kennedy Space Center. (Courtesy SpaceX via Unsplash) Every few days now, a giant rocket blasts a fiery trail through the atmosphere, lofting satellites into orbit, ...

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found ...