2+ week, 6+ day ago   (549+ words) A Polar Climate Ambassador Visits an Arctic Museum in Maine State of the Planet Josie Brooks outside the Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies I found myself captivated by the Arctic, along with the native people and their customs Recently, I…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (844+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School The world’s governments will arrive in Addis Ababa in late 2027 for COP32, the first African-hosted climate summit in five years. Ethiopia’s presidency is on behalf of the African Union, the continental body. Addis Ababa has…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (502+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School The problem of the moment was power. Everything had gone smoothly when the team tested the power system earlier that week at the headquarters of Chile’s Southern Andes Volcano Observatory (OVDAS) in Temuco, a…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (544+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Guy Ningabo was born and raised in Burundi, East Africa, one of the poorest nations in the world, during a civil war that lasted over a decade (from 1993 to 2005). The country entered a political…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (217+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School The Columbia Climate School and the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering (EEE) of the Columbia Engineering School are delighted to announce that Yan Yao has joined our faculty, effective July 1. A leading researcher…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (467+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Global climate finance crossed the US$2 trillion mark in 2024 and grew further to over US$2.3 trillion in 2025, despite political headwinds. The driver? Plummeting clean-energy costs that pull investments all but automatically. The latest geopolitical…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (89+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Aniruddha Pravin Jaydeokar is a researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) with a focus on leveraging innovative financial structures and instruments to drive systems-level change in mining and energy value chains,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (449+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School In March 2026, Hawaii was battered by the most severe flooding it had seen since 2004. The intense storms were driven by a series of “Kona lows”—winter storm systems that draw warm, moisture-laden air across…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (315+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Andrea M. Falche Dominicci These initiatives are not the only ones being studied on the island. The Abruña Energy Initiative at Cornell University has also proposed a green hydrogen pilot project as a potential way…...