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A new study has for the first time presented solid evidence that human-caused global warming is linked to melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Increasingly, our crowded urban areas will require blue-sky visions like these to render them more livable, sustainable, and climate-resilient. Or, in other words, smart.
The headline is a sentence that comes toward the end of Vanishing Ice, a new book that answers the question in encyclopedic detail. For those unfamiliar with the term, the cryosphere is the earth’s natural ice in all its forms.
The tides are turning in a quest to solve an earthquake mystery.
Years ago, scientists realized that earthquakes along mid-ocean ridges — those underwater mountain ranges at the edges of the tectonic plates — are linked with the tides. But nobody could figure out why there’s an uptick in tremors during low tides.
Families from all over the five boroughs of New York City came out for the Great Fish Count on Saturday. More than 1600 people stopped by to help out with this annual survey of biodiversity in New York City’s waterways.
For many people, climate change feels like a distant threat. Scientists often think that if everyone saw the devastating impacts of climate change, we’d all be more likely to accept it as real, and that accepting climate science is essential to taking action against it. A new study challenges the latter part of this assumption.
The ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year, multi-institutional data collection survey of Antarctic ice, has assembled an unprecedented view of the Ross Ice Shelf, its structure, and how it has been changing over time.
As part of the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability special issue, the magazine asked experts to provide refreshed definitions of key sustainability concepts. Thaddeus Pawlowski, managing director of Columbia's Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, offered a definition.
In an unusual new study, scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory say they have detected the fingerprint of human-driven global warming on patterns of drought and moisture across the world as far back as 1900.
Catherine Flowers, senior fellow at the Center for Earth Ethics, gives testimony to the House Committee on Water Resources and Environment about inequities in wastewater treatment.