As COP31 and COP32 approach, a Climate Week panel brought together climate leaders to discuss how the world can turn Paris ...

Five Lamont scientists received major 2026 honors recognizing research on sea-level change, ocean carbon uptake, seafloor ...

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

In this month's edition of our research roundup, we look at the impact of suspending U.S. embassy reporting on air quality; ...

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

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.

Five Lamont scientists received major 2026 honors recognizing research on sea-level change, ocean carbon uptake, seafloor mapping and Earth’s deep interior. William B. F. Ryan receives the Maurice ...

New analyses of ancient cattle, sheep and goat bones suggest that the rapid spread of introduced livestock 1,200 years ago coincided with forest loss and population declines among large native ...

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 ...

As the climate warms, the number of alien species on every continent is expected to increase 36 percent by 2050. Some alien species—that is, plants or animals that live outside their natural range—are ...

The pandemic slowed fast fashion to a standstill. Now as the world opens up and we are socializing and going places, we want to dress up again. But after living a confined and simpler life during ...

New York City’s current responses to COVID-19 have a lot in common with the long history of epidemics that have devastated the health and well-being of the city’s population. Today, as during the ...