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In New Jersey’s Ancient Rocks, Hunting for Clues to an Earthquake in 2024

Geologists are combing the New Jersey countryside for signs of earthquakes past and present.

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• The Baffin Bay Deglacial Experiment
  April 16, 2024
  Documentary features Lamont-Doherty core repository and curator Brendan Reilly
• How a Theory about Climate Change Led to The Feminine Mystique
  April 10, 2024
  Feature on author Betty Friedan's efforts to explain work of Lamont scientists Maurice Ewing and William Donn
• Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?
  April 10, 2024
  “There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”