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The Ocean Carbon Sink Is Ailing – State of the Planet

Image: Philip Thurston Adapted from a release written by Michael Keller for ETH Zurich. In brief Extreme sea surface temperatures in 2023 resulted in high CO₂ outgassing, particularly in the North Atlantic, meaning that the global ocean absorbed less CO₂ overall. Thanks to El Niño, much less CO₂ than usual escaped into the atmosphere in […]
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Power to the people

This future scenario provides a rationale to rebrand – and so perpetuate – natural gas as a ‘transition fuel’ for the foreseeable future. Western governments (among others) have embraced this narrative in recent years, thus postponing efforts to phase out fossil fuels. State research programmes for energy futures internalise and legitimise those assumptions of the fossil […]
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Study Finds We’ll Lose Almost 40 Percent of Our Glacial Ice – State of the Planet

A recent study published in Science used glacier models to better understand the effect that each degree of global warming will have on worldwide glacier melt. The impacts of the warming the Earth has already experienced are yet to be fully realized, because glaciers have not reached equilibrium with the changing climate. The models provide […]
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Monica Alonso Soria’s Path to Columbia – State of the Planet

Monica Alonso Soria was interested in finance from an early age. But after graduating from college and working in the field for a few years, Soria felt something was missing. “I wanted to have a long-lasting impact on society and the environment,” she remembers thinking. Soria decided to switch her career focus and joined the […]
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Climate and Society Students Address Climate Challenges in the Real World – State of the Planet

The summer capstone project is a chance for Columbia Climate School’s Climate and Society students to put academics into action. After a year spent studying subjects like climate mitigation, adaptation and justice, students partner with an organization—this year’s participants included the NYC Department of Health, the National Institute of Urban Affairs, Capgemini, H2Global, the Climate […]
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The Link Between the Climate Crisis and Linguistic Diversity in New York City – State of the Planet

In July 2025, glacial lake outburst floods on the border of Tibet and Nepal, in the Rasuwa district, killed at least 11 people. Two years earlier, in August 2023, a flash flood in Mustang, a high-altitude region in Nepal, caused an estimated 7.4 million USD in damages. In June 2021, Upper Manang, another remote mountain […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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