A journalist looks back on his efforts to cover the first Earth Day.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/04/21/earth-day-1970-memoir/
A new study shows that some of Yellowstone National Park’s forests may be at a climate tipping point, and could be replaced by grassland by the middle of this century.
The forested Kanha Tiger Reserve, in the highlands of central India, is home to an abundance of rare wildlife. It also used to be home to thousands of people—that is, until they were moved out ...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2017/07/17/photo-essay-when-people-must-make-way-for-nature/
In the small town of Kolasib, we stayed in Hotel Cloud 9. I had been told since I was a child that I was always off on Cloud 9 and now I was actually here. However, the electricity wasn’t for t...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/27/geology-and-filming-in-mizoram/
Leaving Hiron Point, we headed east through the Sundarbans to Kotka. At Kotka the students had walks through the forest seeing deer, wild boar and monkeys, while a smaller group also sampled near...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/21/salt-kilns-and-landscape-change-in-the-sundarbans/
We visited Polder 32, an embanked island in the delta that was flooded for almost two years when the embankment failed in several places during Cyclone Aila. In addition to the problem of increas...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/20/polder-32-and-hiron-point/
After traveling by boat for two days, including crossing the Sundarban Mangrove Forest, we finally arrived in Khulna. We drove to the site of our compaction meter and separated into teams servici...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/20/working-in-the-bangladeshi-countryside/
With the roads in Bangladesh hazardous to drive because of the ongoing political unrest, our undergraduate sustainable development class managed to proceed with our class trip over Spring Break b...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/15/sailing-around-political-unrest-in-bangladesh/
On July 1, single-use styrofoam products will cease to be in circulation in New York City due to a new regulation. The ban, which will be implemented in all five boroughs, will require that no ma...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/11/say-goodbye-to-styrofoam/
Apply now to the Summer 2015 Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates program. Undergraduate students of all majors can apply for the opportunity to conduct field work and study unique ecosystems...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2014/12/11/summer-2015-see-u-study-abroad-experience/