Geologists are combing the New Jersey countryside for signs of earthquakes past and present.
A Harvard astronomer says a meteor came from beyond our solar system. A new study questions whether his data includes a more obvious explanation.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/04/09/was-it-an-alien-spacecraft-or-a-delivery-truck/
A new study shows that a giant current circling Antarctica has speeded up during past warm periods, eating away at the polar ice. It's doing it again now.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/03/27/key-ocean-current-contains-a-warning-on-climate/
The remainder of my fieldwork focuses on the GNSS (the general term for GPS) instruments in eastern Bangladesh to study the tectonics and earthquake hazard.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/03/20/repairing-tectonic-gnss-in-bangladeshs-tea-region/
In honor of International Women’s Day, we highlight a new workshop that engages women of all backgrounds in ocean sciences.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/03/08/girl-talk-is-making-waves/
What role do ice and glacial melt play in modern society? Icelandic anthropologist Gísli Pálsson reflects on a recent article that examines this question.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/03/06/stickiness-in-glacial-space-and-time/
An extended volcanic winter could have huge impacts on all living creatures. But could this really happen?
On Costa Rica's active Poás volcano, scientists install geophysical instruments that can monitor the underground in real time.
This second video for Science for the Planet series explores the idea of sinking sargassum seaweed deep in the ocean, taking carbon with it.
An undersea eruption a half million years ago was much larger than nearly anything recorded in human time.