Extreme precipitation is among most damaging disasters and major concern in our changing climate. What is total area of the US affected, and how have these patterns changed? A study led by @trinish-chatterjee.bsky.social of @lamont.columbia.edu reveals some unexpected trends: https://bit.ly/3UkFhfh

💡 Today I Discovered (TID): The Secret Life of Noctiluca Scintillans At @LamontEarth, researchers in The Goes-Gomes Lab (thegoes-gomeslab.org) are using Noctiluca scintillans to better understand aquatic symbioses central to marine and freshwater ecosystems.

VICTOR at the 2026 Earth Educators’ Rendezvous! 📚🌎 It was wonderful meeting so many passionate educators and sharing the VICTOR platform with the broader geoscience community. Stay tuned for educational materials developed at the conference, which will be made available on our website soon!

Registration deadline extended to 8/31/26 for the 2nd VICTOR Developer Summit! ✏️ Read more and register here: victor.ldeo.columbia.edu/events/works...

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Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins from wildfire smoke than previously known. “It’s a bit of a young field” but recent research is compelling, says @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist @dwesty.bsky.social. Via @nytimes.com. https://nyti.ms/4x8pC0W

How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Health

Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins than previously known.

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The U.S. relies on imports for many critical minerals that power modern industry. During #ClimateWeek at Columbia Engineering, the LCSE Symposium will discuss how to rebuild secure supply chains and deliver affordable energy. https://bit.ly/3Ufwknc @climate.columbia.edu ‬‬‬@lamont.columbia.edu

Heat, cold, snow, and wildfire smoke in NYC have translated into eviction delays, giving tenants temporary respite to stay in their homes. Climate scientist Daniel Bader of @lamont.columbia.edu breaks down the extreme weather events of 2026. Via @curbed.com. https://bit.ly/3UvYcUe

Heat, Smoke, and Snow Have Translated to a Lot More Eviction Delays

Extreme weather — plus the Knicks parade — brought a jump in postponements.

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Volcanologists Terry Plank and @einatlev.bsky.social of @lamont.columbia.edu with the AVERT team and Chilean colleagues have brought real-time monitoring to Villarrica, one of Chile’s most active and dangerous volcanoes. 🌋 Wiring the Spirit’s House: https://bit.ly/4xxXwMi

Seismologist Eric Beaucé of @lamont.columbia.edu joins @cbsnews.com to explain how location played a role in Colombia's 7.4- magnitude earthquake that took place on Aug 10. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-colombias-location-impacted-the-earthquakes-magnitude/

Climate researchers Marco Tedesco & David Sathuluri of @lamont.columbia.edu reflect on how a single week of heat, smoke, and flooding exposed NYC's vulnerability, and how compound event science must be translated into actionable tools that cities and states can use: https://bit.ly/45QEt4a

A new, uniquely long-term study of emissions at a New Jersey landfill led by PhD student Andrew Hallward-Driemeier of @lamont.columbia.edu suggests that estimates of methane pollution in the US and elsewhere may be dramatically off. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4qb1Kaj

3 Insights 🔎 1️⃣ Extreme heat is escalating health and infrastructure risks. 🌡️ 2️⃣ Pacific Ocean circulation patterns help explain diverging wildfire trends. 🔥 3️⃣ Geospatial mapping is vital for responding to epidemic outbreaks. 🗺️ 📩 Subscribe: climate.columbia.edu/join

“Staying in science is itself a form of resistance.” — mycologist Jefferson Rei Despite global turmoil, Gen Z researchers are not giving up www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ 🦑

Despite global turmoil, Gen Z researchers are not giving up

Four researchers born after 1997 describe how they stay motivated and cultivate resilience during difficult times.

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August 1975, the journal Science publishes a paper by Wallace S. Broecker titled “Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? in which he argued that the increase in atmospheric carbon-dioxide occurring because of the burning of fossil fuels would result in higher global temperatures...🌡️

From the 2026 Environmental Performance Index to how gas bubbles shaped Kīlauea’s lava flow to the Pacific’s contrasting effects on wildfires, it's our State of the Planet roundup of @lamont.columbia.edu and @climate.columbia.edu research: https://bit.ly/45K9qHc

🌋 Volcanologist @einatlev.bsky.social of @lamont.columbia.edu joins @nbcnews.com to discuss Martinique's Mount Pelée, a dormant but previously deadly Caribbean volcano that is showing an uptick in activity during a period of powerful eruptions across the globe. 🎥 youtu.be/Z1viZPpB0us?...

Tracking the wildfire smoke situation in the Pacific Northwest, and can't help but appreciate how much better the readiness and preparedness system is in the West compared to elsewhere in the US. Here's a great example from the interagency program: outlooks.airfire.org/outlook/04fb...

Are you a tool developer looking to share your work with the volcanology community?🌋 If so, check out our '2nd VICTOR Developer Summit: Making your tools easily accessible to the community' 📍University of South Florida 🗓️ 11/4-6/2026 Read more & register: victor.ldeo.columbia.edu/events/works...

🗺️ From Marie Tharp to Seabed 2030: Mapping the Ocean Floor 🌋 Gas Bubbles Played Central Role in Kīlauea’s 2018 Eruption 🔥 Pacific Ocean Pattern Helps Explain Diverging Wildfire Trends 🗓️ Science Saturdays at LDEO Field Station | Oct 17 LDEO Open House 📩 lamont.columbia.edu/news/newsletter

🔥 New online professional learning course! The Science of Climate Change: Beyond the Basics with Columbia Climate School professor Radley Horton Understand climate science, extreme risks, and impacts to make better decisions in a changing world. ➡️ Enroll today with Columbia+: https://bit.ly/47NJDzv

Please consider submitting your abstract to our @agu.org session on Compound Events with invited speakers A. Mishra (Texas A&M) & R. Horton (@climate.columbia.edu). Submission Deadline: Aug. 5th Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... @iiasa.ac.at @lamont.columbia.edu

🗺️ Explore pioneering @lamont.columbia.edu geologist and cartographer Marie Tharp's groundbreaking 1977 World Ocean Floor map and discover how it transformed our understanding of the Earth. #MarieTharp Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4wEglgS

Two of world’s most fire-prone regions have followed strikingly different wildfire trajectories despite both experiencing warming climate, and a Pacific ocean pattern helps explain it, finds new study led by @lamont.columbia.edu PhD / NASA GISS postdoc Tess Wei-Ping Jacobson: https://bit.ly/44XdzHx

Great new paper from Zoltan Taracsak - the sulphur isotopic composition of the subarc mantle from melt inclusions, corrected for degassing. ⚒️🌋 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu @whoi.edu @ufresearch.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The sulfur content and isotopic composition of the subarc mantle

Sulfur isotopes in volcanic glasses reveal the global significance and the unexpectedly uniform source of arc magma sulfur.

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In honor of Marie Tharp’s birthday, @vferrini.bsky.social—recently named the prestigious Marie Tharp Senior Research Scientist at @lamont.columbia.edu—discusses the geologist’s pioneering work and how it paved the way for her own collaborative efforts to map the ocean floor: https://bit.ly/3S0H3kO

Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920. She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

July 30, 1920, birthday of American geologist Marie Tharp. At a time when there were still few options for women in science, Tharp studied oil geology, but more interested in broader earth sciences, she became one of the 1st women at what’s now the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ...

How can AI can support scientific research without undermining human judgment, ethics, or equity? This question is shaping an emerging effort at @lamont.columbia.edu led by climate scientist Marco Tedesco to think more deliberately about AI: https://bit.ly/4fDvDuX

“This is a welcome investment in what will have to be a much larger effort to address the growing problem of flooding in low-lying and coastal communities,” says Paul Gallay, director, Resilient Coastal Communities Project, @climate.columbia.edu. Via @nytimes.com. https://nyti.ms/4pFPEpF

Mamdani Commits $43 Million to Jump-Start Effort to Stop N.Y.C. Flooding

The money will go to an agency responsible for addressing the effects of climate change in the city, including the operation of flood gates.

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Climate change is already reshaping our brains. How do we act earlier, build resilience, and change the trajectory for future generations, ask @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist Marco Tedesco and neuroscientist and Neuro Climate Working Group founder Burcin Ikiz: https://bit.ly/4yBmKuP