Every year, the Climate School recognizes Earth Day by sharing images celebrating the beauty and magic of the Earth captured by the Columbian community. Some highlights of this year’s selection include the blue skies in the Atacama Desert in Chile; the volcanoes that erupted in La Palma, Spain; penguins studying biologists in the Amundsen Sea; and coral labeling and replanting in Hawaii.
Please enjoy our beautiful planet selection in Colombia and visit our Earth Day website for more information on this year’s topic, our power, our planet.
Volcanologists Janine Birnbaum and Einat Lev of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are installing thermal web cameras to monitor the eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma, Spain in the fall of 2021.Atacama Desert in Chile. Image source: Joey Parr, Columbia Climate SchoolThe endangered teenager, Red Peak doucs (_pygathrix nemaeus_). Endangered Primate Rescue Center in CUC Money National Park, Vietnam (2025). Credits: Jenna Lawrence (SDEV, SUMA) of Columbia Climate SchoolGuatapé, Colombia, can be seen from Guatapé (the rock of Guatapé). Credit: National Disaster Preparation Center Charly Vergara BenjumeaWhite rhino, zebra and small neckPenguin Research Lamont biologist Raymond Sambrotto, Amundsen Sea, December 2008. Credit: Yuan Yuan, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryPine cones in Newfoundland. Image source: Joey Parr, Columbia Climate SchoolJune 2023, explore modern and ancient dunes, Hawaii, Hawaii.Summer interns deploy experimental centers at Morningside Park Pond, New York City. Image source: Joaquim Go, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryIn July 2017, the A-68 iceberg flew over the NASA Icebridge movement, which broke into the Larsen C Ice Beshelf in July 2017. Credits: Caitlin Locke, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryThis piece was installed on the climate Imaginarium in Governor Island in the summer of 2024. Imagination is the product of the climate imagination network, led by Josh Nodiff, a Massachusetts-based alumnus, with support from Climate Schools and Climate School Auxiliary Teacher and Filmmaker Lydia Pilcher. Credits: Columbia Climate School of Sandra GoldmarkGraduate student Lauren Lewright travels through Patagonia’s pebbled beaches (March 2024). Image source: Jacky Austermann, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryDuring the NASA Bioscape Field event, the United African team from the United States and the United States will travel to Walker Bay for samples. Image source: Joaquim Go, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryCoral labels and replants in Hawaii. Courtesy: Maria Lujan, Columbia Climate SchoolRecharge Expedition on Lake Bud, New Jersey on February 1, 2025Rainbow on the rose garden of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (2016). Credits: Caroline Leland, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryLast Ice Beach Unit (125,000 Years Historical), Oahu, Hawaii, June 2023. Ldeo’s Mo Raymo (left) and Steve Goldstein (right). Image source: Jacky Austermann, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryVisiting students during fieldwork in Puerto Rico in 2015. Credits: Bärbel Hönisch, Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryAerial view of a drone taken on August 30, 2022 on Lamont campus. Lender: Tom Burke
