Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Nation & World
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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Campus & Community
Dancing with myself
Virtual workout classes help the community stay connected and healthy while social distancing.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Campus & Community
Why the Arboretum remains open
Director William “Ned” Friedman explains the rationale for keeping the Arboretum open during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
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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Health
Breakthrough to halt premature aging of cells
Potential drug treatments are being developed for telomere diseases, in which cells age prematurely.
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Arts & Culture
Spirituality, social justice, and climate change meet at the crossroads
Dan McKanan of Harvard Divinity School discusses the ways in which spirituality interacts with climate change and how religious organizations have ensured environmentalism includes social justice.
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Campus & Community
President’s Innovation Challenge taps students’ ingenuity
Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge finalists who will be awarded a total of $510,000 at a virtual ceremony in May.
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Work & Economy
Sustainability in Big Sky Country
Owners of ranch and nursery since the 1970s talk about the interdependence of financial and environmental viability.
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Campus & Community
Extracurriculars for an online campus
Socialize Remotely allows students, faculty, and staff to continue attending a range of extracurricular activities, and to connect.
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Campus & Community
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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Nation & World
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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Campus & Community
New committee to advise Bacow on sustainability goals
Members of the new Presidential Committee on Sustainability discuss why it is so important to act now to address climate change, the committee’s role in developing collaborative and innovative projects, and how community members can get involved.
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Nation & World
The culture of Earth Day
As Earth Day turns 50, Harvard examines how it brought environmentalism into everyday life.
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Science & Tech
In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries
So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data.
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Campus & Community
If Harvard were to reopen today, who should be allowed to return?
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel led a campuswide audience in a Zoom event, “Harvard Live: Pandemic Ethics.”
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Nation & World
How Earth Day gave birth to environmental movement
Denis Hayes remembers how he dropped out of Harvard Kennedy School in 1970 to help pull together a novel idea: a nationwide rally called Earth Day.
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Health
Feeling more anxious and stressed? You’re not alone
Uncertainty, unemployment, and ill health are combining to feed a rise in concern about America’s mental health as people shelter from the coronavirus and each other, a Harvard Chan School psychiatric epidemiologist said Thursday.
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Health
Insomnia in a pandemic
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hosted an online forum on “Coronavirus, social distancing, and acute insomnia: How to avoid chronic sleep problems before they get started.”
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Campus & Community
So what have you been up to?
The Gazette reached out to members of the Harvard community as they entered their second month of social isolation to find out what they are reading, watching, doing, and listening to in the age of coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Herzl re-imagined
Derek Penslar at Harvard University discusses his new book on Theodor Herzl with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Nation & World
Keeping ethics alive during the pandemic
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has launched the COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Initiative, a series of white papers from some 40 thinkers on issues of justice, values, and civil liberties designed to inform policymakers during the crisis.
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Campus & Community
Explore Widener in all its glory, from your desk or phone
Explore Harvard’s Widener Library, from its marble rotunda to the Loker Reading Room, through a new 360-degree virtual tour.
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Campus & Community
A new name for the Semitic Museum
Harvard Museum of Ancient Near East more “accurately reflects the diversity of the collection.”
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Health
COVID-19 may not go away in warmer weather as do colds
Harvard researchers are turning to two common cold viruses to learn lessons about how the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 might behave in the coming months.
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Nation & World
An impact in real time
Justin Rose is working in Baltimore’s vibrant communities to help solve problems using data.
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Science & Tech
Toward an unhackable quantum internet
Harvard and MIT researchers have found a way to correct for signal loss with a prototype quantum node that can catch, store, and entangle bits of quantum information. The research is the missing link toward a practical quantum internet.
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Health
COVID-19 targets communities of color
Harvard scholars discuss health care disparities in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
Dispatches from socially distancing students and faculty
Harvard students and faculty offer glimpses into their lives during social distancing.
