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Columbia Climate School » Water
6d ago
On World Water Day, Columbia researchers explore the best options for replacing America's aging pipes ..read more
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3w ago
Traveling by boat, we are finishing our data collection and equipment servicing in coastal Bangladesh. We have GNSS (GPS) instruments to measure the subsidence below them, and RSET-MH to measure compaction/subsidence above a deep rod. On this trip the seven of us are also sampling the upper meters of sediments using an auger, collecting 100-150 sediment samples.   ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
3w ago
As par of our trip studying land subsidence and elevation changes, we boarded a boat to travel through the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
1M ago
The sustainability of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta and Bangladesh depends on the balance of sea level rise, land subsidence and sedimentation. We are measuring the latter two across the coastal zone ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
2M ago
Increased heat due to human-induced climate change, not just lack of rain, is driving the continued drying of soils, say researchers ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
2M ago
Using a new technique, scientists have been able to identify extremely minute plastic fragments in bottled water, 10 times more than previously counted ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
5M ago
The future of America’s water supply is an open question. The need for an adequate water supply is not open to question ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
6M ago
The U.S. Southwest has suffered a historic drought over the past two decades. A new study elucidates the drivers, and says conditions will never return to those of the relatively wet 20th century ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
1y ago
Our group of 23 American and Bangladeshi students and professors traveled from the Jamuna River to the Ganges and Gorai Rivers and then down to an embanked island on the edge of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest ..read more
Columbia Climate School » Water
1y ago
I am here in Bangladesh with the 10 students and TA in my undergraduate Sustainable Development course for a Spring Break trip to see what they have been learning about. We are accompanied by 2 Dhaka University professors, 8 Bangladeshi students, and Carol Wilson from LSU. We will be touring the country by bus and boat to learn about the environment and people of Bangladesh ..read more