🎓 Top Tips for Applying to Columbia Climate School! Before you submit an application, hear what our students recommend to give you the best chances of success! ➡️ Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hCeYKM

📆 Join us at Nov 6 Climate & Sustainability Open House: https://bit.ly/4hE1Nc8

One year after the city launched congestion pricing, fine particulate pollution inside NYC’s congestion relief zone was 13% lower, finds a new study by @lamont.columbia.edu's Polina Goldberg, Abhishek Anand, @dwesty.bsky.social & @gwpublichealth.bsky.social's Daniel Goldberg: https://bit.ly/4i79dER

📊 How are children in rural America doing?

NCDP worked on Save the Children US’s new Rural Child Well-Being Dashboards and released six topical reports on rural child-focused preparedness.

Explore the data: https://www.rural-child-data.org/
NCDP reports: https://bit.ly/rural-children #RuralAmerica

👏 @lamont.columbia.edu scientists have received major honors from @agu.org for their contributions to our understanding of ocean floor structure, deep Earth processes & sea-level change, dust & paleoclimate, ocean carbon cycle, and physics of Earth’s deep interior. #AGU26 ➡️ https://bit.ly/4yJQXaO

🥳 Join us on our beautiful campus in Palisades, NY for Oct 17 @lamont.columbia.edu Open House (openhouse.ldeo.columbia.edu), our biggest, best science fun & discovery event of the year! Shuttle from Columbia Morningside & Crestron in Rockleigh, NJ. #LamontRocks 👉Details: https://bit.ly/4yr5JCp

Study led by @oregonstate.edu's Sean Hixon & @climate.columbia.edu's Leanne Phelps of ancient cattle, sheep, goat bones on Madagascar suggests that spread of introduced livestock 1,200 yrs ago coincided with forest loss & population declines among large native herbivores: https://bit.ly/4yCK4ru

This summer, programs led by the Climate Education for a Resilient Future Earth Network at @climate.columbia.edu in collaboration with @lamont.columbia.edu immersed HS students in hands-on climate research, helping the next generation of scientists build key skills: https://bit.ly/47o5q05

🎙️🍠 Brought to you by @jochebedlj.bsky.social and Dannie Dinh of our Food for Humanity Initiative, Food Pod for Humanity explores topics at food systems-climate change intersection with diverse experts. Season 3 launches soon, focused on how food gets to our plates! https://bit.ly/3TrvPXv

On Oct 12 6:30-9pm ET, join our Research Program on Sustainability Policy & Management for an expert panel on the promises and pitfalls of green industrial policy plus an intro to new MS in Sustainability Management field courses in China and Brazil. RSVP: https://bit.ly/4j8GpwX

During #ClimateWeekNYC, The Nature Conservancy Asia Pacific, @climate.columbia.edu, Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, & regional partners launched a new report advancing a shared vision for nature to be recognized and invested in as critical climate infrastructure: https://bit.ly/4rONMvK

A strong El Niño event is anticipated in the coming months. On Oct 6 11am-12:15pm ET, join NYC Preparedness & Recovery Institute, Columbia Global, and @climate.columbia.edu for a webinar on what global cities are doing to prepare. RSVP: https://bit.ly/4APGVpY

🌊 A Career Spent Collecting Earth's Seismic Clues
🔥 Unused Natural Gas Behind NYC’s $300M Waste of Potent Greenhouse Gas
⛵ Robot Sailboats to Spend 5 Years Measuring Carbon in Southern Ocean
🗓️ RSVP for Oct 17 LDEO Open House: openhouse.ldeo.columbia.edu
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🛁 Oobleck! How can a bathtub full of cornstarch and water help us understand the dynamics of the solid Earth? Join us at Oct 17 @lamont.columbia.edu Open House to find out this and more! 🚌 Free shuttles! #LamontRocks 👉 RSVP: openhouse.ldeo.columbia.edu

The current El Niño will break all sea-surface temperature records to date and will very likely deliver unprecedented weather-related impacts around the world. Learn more from our experts via State of the Planet: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/10/01/el-nino-2026-how-big-could-it-get/

💡 Today I Learned (TIL): Aasthaa Sawarkar, MS in Climate

At Climate Leadership & Health: Bridging Global Diplomacy & Planetary Health during #ClimateWeekNYC, I asked: What do you want to see from youth? A: Find your expertise, educate, collaborate for change. Also: Be loud!

🐬 Among our Oct 17 Lamont Open House (RSVP: openhouse.ldeo.columbia.edu) and Art Meets Science at Lamont exhibits is Whimsical Science...Tiny Creatures & Big Ideas by award-winning author/illustrator Betsy Franco-Feeney. Via Hudson Valley News: https://bit.ly/4AxfbGB

Is swimming in the Hudson River a good idea? City officials, swimmers, advocates, and experts including @lamont.columbia.edu biological oceanographer Andrew Juhl weigh in. Via @gothamist.com. https://gothamist.com/news/swimming-the-hudson-river-its-a-thing-but-avoid-the-dead-rats-other-water-hazards

As part of HISEAS (hiseas.org), @lamont.columbia.edu scientists are studying fossil coral reefs in the Cook Islands to reconstruct sea levels during the Last Interglacial and improve projections of future change: https://bit.ly/4deH4ZW

🌋 Whether you're an aspiring scientist or long-time science enthusiast, @lamont.columbia.edu Open House is going to be a blast! Join us Sat Oct 17 for lab tours, hands-on activities, and talks by our world-renowned scientists. 🚌 Free shuttles! #LamontRocks 👉 RSVP: openhouse.ldeo.columbia.edu