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From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter November 18, 2019 9:11 PM ET More than 200 media outlets and journalists partnered together with activists to coordinate and hype climate change news before the 2019 U.N. climate...

Observational data of equatorial circulation pattern confirms that the pattern is weakening, a development with important consequences for future rainfall in the subtropics Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied...

Engineers at Columbia University have created a "solar fuels rig," which floats on the ocean, captures solar energy, then uses that energy to extract hydrogen from seawater...

In a world where much energy is wasted, valuable renewable sources may be disappearing into thin air. Scientists at Columbia University and elsewhere are working on harnessing electricity from the evaporation of water. According...

In a world where much energy is wasted, whether through food waste, poor insulation, or inefficient appliances, valuable renewable sources may be disappearing into thin air...

Thick layers of Dead Sea salt found 1,000 feet below the sea bed holds clues to our planet's past - and a warning. The salt reveals during warm periods in Earth's history, the region - the Dead Sea is bordered by Palestine,...

Did you know there is a DeathLab at Columbia University? Operating under the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, DeathLab puruse sustainable designs for futuristic cemeteries, and they recently won...

  Researchers at Columbia University have successfully created the world's first computer chip powered by an isolated chemical biological process...

Many a science fiction film features a character - hero or villain, depending on the author - that is a man-machine hybrid, whose biological systems are somehow fused with mechanical parts, as if one cohesive being...

If you’re weary, feelin’ small, remember that somewhere out there, two supermassive black holes are colliding. Earlier this year, astronomers at Caltech identified a cosmic event that is occurring 3.5 billion light years...

Hang on to your water bottles; the United States is set to experience the worst droughts the country has seen in 1,000 years – all thanks to climate change...

We should be thankful for our oceans. In addition to providing us with food and recreation and a host of other services, they absorb up to one quarter of our carbon dioxide emissions. As a result, climate change is not nearly...

A new study published in Science by the Scripp's Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that the earth's crust is slowly rising in the West "like an uncoiled spring" due extreme drought...

Every state has a plan for what to do in the event of disaster, specifically, a "State Hazard Mitigation Plan," but there's no requirement that these plans take global warming into consideration...

Image via Shutterstock A new study published in the journal Science finds that global warming slowed down in recent years because oceans have been absorbing much of the heat...