Tag: Climate Change
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Viewing climate change as a human health problem
Renee Salas, an ER doctor and assistant professor of medicine, addressed questions about a new climate and health report from The Lancet.
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More climate research, teaching to make greater impact
The new vice provost for climate and sustainability talks about upcoming efforts to boost Harvard’s response to challenges presented by climate change.
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Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels
Research by new Harvard Ph.D. finds warping of planet’s crust, with far-reaching effects.
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Focus on health and equity to meet 2026 climate goal, advises Sustainability Committee
Harvard is engaging its researchers and industry climate leaders to identify and invest in projects, according to the Harvard Presidential Committee on Sustainability.
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Forward thinker
As campus life resumes, President Larry Bacow says he hopes lessons learned from the pandemic can help us navigate challenges and seize opportunities.
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How food donations can help fight hunger and climate change
Every year, nearly 700 million people suffer from hunger around the world, while 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away.
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What exactly is a ‘fire tornado’?
What is a fire tornado? Harvard’s Loretta Mickley sheds some light.
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Giving back to the Greater Boston community
Students from Schools, centers, and programs across Harvard University volunteer their time, effort, and expertise to advance work being done by local government and community organizations across Greater Boston.
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Does climate doubt have a sound? At least one composer thinks so
Harvard professors Janine Jackson and Naomi Oreskes collaborate on music and climate change denial project.
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Climate change as a national security issue
Former Secretary of State Kerry calls climate change one of the biggest threats facing the nation.
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Eyes on tomorrow, voices of today
From environmental justice to environmental litigation, Harvard students shared their passion for the natural world and their designs on the fight for its future.
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Biden’s reversal of Trump’s environmental legacy swift, far-reaching
The Biden administration’s actions on the environment have been fast and broad, reversing many anti-environmental policies of the prior administration, despite being limited in many cases to executive action and targeted spending due to Congressional Republican opposition.
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Finding a way forward on climate change
If the causes and problems of climate change are entwined, then the solutions must be as well, according to an online panel of Harvard faculty.
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Steps to zero
To keep its promise to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its portfolio by 2050, the Harvard Corporation directed Harvard Management Company to give an early assessment of where its efforts and investments stand now.
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Losing time against climate disaster
In an online Harvard Science Book Talk, philanthropist Bill Gates warns of environmental perils ahead and offers a plan to combat them.
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New faculty: Sarah Dimick
Harvard Assistant Professor Sarah Dimick wants to expand the understanding of connections between literature and the environment.
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Principled yet just, pragmatic yet idealistic — and nice
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, recipient of the 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, talks about leadership challenges and how she’s dealt with crises from the outside, like the coronavirus pandemic, and from the inside, like self-doubt and sexism in politics.
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So how much change can Biden bring on climate change?
Harvard environmental experts discuss what’s next in climate-change policy.
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Is science back? Harvard’s Holdren says ‘yes’
The incoming Biden administration will hear science, Obama’s top science adviser said. It’s also important for scientists to engage in public debate about science.
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When it hits 100 degrees in Siberia …
With the threat of extreme heat rising, from California to Siberia, we ask climate scientist Peter Huybers what to expect in the future.
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How plants adapt to climate change
Researchers at the Arnold Arboretum are studying how maple trees are adapting to climate change.
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In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon
The rate at which carbon is captured from the atmosphere at Harvard Forest nearly doubled between 1992 and 2015, a 25-year study reveals.
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How and why the Supreme Court made climate-change history
Richard Lazarus discusses his new book, which tells the story of a 2007 landmark environmental case.
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What scares you most about climate change?
Harvard faculty talk about their concerns and fears about climate change as the world commemorates Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
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No ‘silver lining’ for the climate
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, law professor reflects on the state of U.S. climate change regulation and the impacts of COVID-19.
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Want us to invest? Or to keep our investment? Get greener
John Campbell discusses Harvard’s new plan to have its endowment reflect net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.
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Harvard endowment to go greenhouse gas-neutral by 2050
In an announcement Tuesday, Harvard signaled its expanding commitment to attacking climate change with a dramatic new pledge to drastically reduce emissions in its investment portfolio so Harvard’s endowment can achieve “net-zero” emissions by 2050.
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Global problem, local solutions
The Arctic Initiative, a joint project of the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will use local expertise for a wide array of potential policy solutions.
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A great civilization brought low by climate change (and, no, it’s not us)
Human-environmental scientist says there are new clues about how and why the Maya culture collapsed.