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Exploring Sustainable Development in Rwanda and Bangladesh – State of the Planet

This past March, two separate groups of students from the Office of Undergraduate Programs at the Columbia Climate School traveled to Rwanda and Bangladesh as part of their coursework in sustainable development. Their trips focused on exploring what sustainability means in the context of sub-Saharan Africa and on a tectonically active delta, respectively. Rwandan children […]
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Carbon capture, or political capture?

Greenpeace UK’s policy director Doug Parr said the investment would “extend the life of planet-heating oil and gas production”. Does this technology hold up to scrutiny, and what role, if any, should it play in decarbonisation? The UK government’s projects are based around CCUS, which involves usage of captured carbon, as opposed to just carbon […]
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Art, Identity and the Self in Retreat – State of the Planet

Fran Beallor wanted to be an astronaut as a child. Now, the artist, curator and educator has drawn a series depicting glaciers based on NASA satellite images. “Portraits of Glaciers,” illustrated in striking detail with colored pencils on paper, features glaciers from around the Earth. Two works from this series are on view through April […]
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Climate denial contaminating social media

A free and publicly-available interactive database and visualisation tool highlighting the volume of online misinformation surrounding climate change called Hot Air has been launched by Tortoise Media The tool, developed in partnership with the University of Exeter and supported by Octopus Energy, helps users identify and track climate misinformation across platforms. The Hot Air tool […]
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Why Climate Finance Is Key To Fighting Climate Change – State of the Planet

Flooding in Klodzku, Poland Photo: Jacek Halicki 2024 was the hottest year on record. Around the world, 151 unprecedented extreme weather events devastated countries around the planet, including heat waves in Japan and Iran, floods in Italy, Pakistan, Poland and Brazil, and typhoons in Vietnam and the Philippines. Massive sums of money are needed to […]
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Creating Climate Solutions with Urban Communities – State of the Planet

As climate change accelerates, cities are on the front lines, both in experiencing its impacts and in crafting solutions. Sheila Foster works to ensure urban climate adaptation strategies are not only effective but equitable. Her research focuses on environmental and climate equity, with an emphasis on co-creating solutions with frontline communities. “Often the people who […]
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Five Ways To Make Your Life More Sustainable – State of the Planet

Photo: Lukasz Kobus/European Commission As exciting as it is when certain records are bested, others are better left alone.  Case in point: Last year was the warmest year on record. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above NASA’s 20th-century baseline (1951-1980), which tops the record set in 2023. The new […]
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Paved with good intentions?

Occupation The issue was further detailed in the article “BR-319: Narratives, Business and Power”, published by Revista Cenarium in February.  According to the article, NGO Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB) produced a document falsely claiming that the Indigenous community had been consulted and had agreed to the reconstruction of the highway, provided that an […]
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Exploring Sustainable Development in Rwanda and Bangladesh – State of the Planet

This past March, two separate groups of students from the Office of Undergraduate Programs at the Columbia Climate School traveled to Rwanda and Bangladesh as part of their coursework in sustainable development. Their trips focused on exploring what sustainability means in the context of sub-Saharan Africa and on a tectonically active delta, respectively. Rwandan children […]
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Floristic Diversity of Zygophyllum album Communities…

Zygophyllum album L. (Zygophyllaceae) is a species of arid and hyperarid zones that has been the subject of many biochemical, pharmaceutical, and medicinal studies, but this species is largely unknown ecologically. This work aims to study the diversity and describe the characteristics of the functional traits of plant species of Zygophyllum album communities associated with […]
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Exploring Sustainable Development in Rwanda and Bangladesh – State of the Planet

This past March, two separate groups of students from the Office of Undergraduate Programs at the Columbia Climate School traveled to Rwanda and Bangladesh as part of their coursework in sustainable development. Their trips focused on exploring what sustainability means in the context of sub-Saharan Africa and on a tectonically active delta, respectively. Rwandan children […]
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Floristic Diversity of Zygophyllum album Communities…

Zygophyllum album L. (Zygophyllaceae) is a species of arid and hyperarid zones that has been the subject of many biochemical, pharmaceutical, and medicinal studies, but this species is largely unknown ecologically. This work aims to study the diversity and describe the characteristics of the functional traits of plant species of Zygophyllum album communities associated with […]
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The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published groundbreaking research in the journal PNAS, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life’s evolution on Earth: the origin of the eukaryotic cell. While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years […]
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