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The year's unprecedented heatwaves have shattered records on both land and sea, igniting wildfires across regions and necessitating evacuations due to extreme temperatures. Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that ocean surface temperatures have surged to unprecedented levels. As Hawaii battles wildfires and mourns the loss of lives, officials urgently seek federal aid for their strained healthcare system. On a global scale, the healthcare sector's vulnerability to heatwaves and the broader impact of climate change are becoming glaringly evident.

Community members in Melbourne’s west are more at risk of certain climate change impacts, and to address this Jesuit Social […]

This article originally was published on World Resources Institute. In the aftermath of the 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. They used the open source InaSAFE platform to access real-time hazard data and modeled population data mapped down to the village level. This was made possible by the collaborative use of "open" data — data that is free to use, open license and in machine-readable formats — between scientists, local and national governments and co...

Spring 2021 Earth Institute Internships The Earth Institute is offering undergraduate, graduate and PhD students opportunities to intern in various departments and research centers in a variety of administration, communications and research roles. Interns work on a variety of sustainability-focused projects across the Earth Institute. These projects provide interns with hands-on workplace experience, allowing them to grow professionally while the Earth Institute centers benefit from their meaningful contributions. All full-time Columbia and Barnard students are eligible to apply for internshi...