Sustainability & Climate

Mud to Metal Solution

Research

U.S. Critical Materials and Columbia University Sign Agreement to Advance Domestic Recovery of Defense-Critical Metals from Red Mud

April 16, 2026

Illustration of how electric vehicles can help balance a city’s power grid as solar generation fluctuates

Research

How Electric Cars Could Help Tropical Cities Run on Solar

April 07, 2026

by Grant Currin

Cryo-TEM image of the gel electrolyte featuring a parasitic salt-phobic network, highlighting the aggregation of fluoroacrylate molecules and their incorporation into the gel matrix after gelation.

Research

A New Electrolyte Points to Stronger, Safer Batteries

February 19, 2026

Ngai Yin Yip holding a lab vial up and pointing at it

Research

A New Method to Unlock Vast Lithium Stores

January 21, 2026

by Grant Currin

Esposito’s team developed a method for plugging nanoscopic holes such as this one, which is a fraction of the width of a human hair.

Research

Plugging Nanoscopic Cracks to Make Hydrogen Cleaner and Cheaper

November 03, 2025

by Grant Currin

Dan Steingart, CEEC Director and Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy

Campus

Deploying Electrochemical Energy Tech in the Real World

October 23, 2025

by Grant Currin

From left to right: Kate Ascher, co-director of Gotham Foundry (GF) and professor of practice of urban development at Columbia; Rein Ulijn, co-director of GF and founding director of the CUNY ASRC Nanoscience Initiative; Helen Lu, director of GF and Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Theanne Schiros, co-director of GF and associate professor at FIT; and Neena Chakrabarti, board member at Genspace.

Campus

Team Led by Columbia Kicks Off $45 Million NYC Regenerative Materials Innovation Hub

October 10, 2025

Columbia Engineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang delivers introductory remarks at the Tech CEO lecture, a fireside chat between Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson and Eurolife FFH CEO Alexander Sarrigeorgiou

Campus

Climate Week 2025 in Photos

October 03, 2025

Matthias Preindl, director of the Center of Advanced Electrification and associate professor of electrical engineering at Columbia

Campus

Columbia Symposium Explores the Future of Electrification

October 03, 2025

by Xintian Tina Wang

image of two speakers talking, with a climate week banner behind them

Campus

From Columbia to Climate Week: Alexander Sarrigeorgiou on Insurance, AI, and Resilience

September 30, 2025

by Mariam Lobjanidze

image of a smoggy sky with the back of a car driving away

Research

How Data and Partnerships Can Address Air Pollution

September 17, 2025

by Meeri Kim

Changing Climate

Research

Why Modeling Climate is More Challenging than Forecasting Weather

September 12, 2025

by Pierre Gentine