Featured series 
Tag: Climate
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Work & Economy
Yes, China has embraced renewables – but don’t call it a transition, expert says
Kennedy School panelists ponder next chapter in a tale of two superpowers
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Campus & Community
Michael McElroy, pioneering atmospheric scientist, dies at 86
Helped build foundation of climate and environmental studies at Harvard
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Science & Tech
First, male gets heated up, then female, and then, you know
Study shows infrared radiation from plants serves as invitation to pollinating insects
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Campus & Community
On the sea or in the lab, Olivia Hogan-Lopez knows the value of perseverance
Senior is researching how PFAS chemicals impact humans and the environment
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Science & Tech
Tracking climate change through nature’s ‘breaths’
New research tower monitoring Harvard Forest’s carbon intake, outtake continues data collection that started in 1989
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Arts & Culture
Hope has a dark side in alum’s ‘A Guardian and a Thief’
Megha Majumdar pushes characters to emotional extremes in follow-up to ‘A Burning’
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Work & Economy
Want Americans to love EVs? Fix this.
U.S. consumers aren’t thinking about daily needs when buying a car, says former GM chief economist
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Science & Tech
‘Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis’
Saving the planet requires getting over ourselves, argues author of ‘The Arrogant Ape’
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Nation & World
U.S. needs to keep its friends closer, Pence says
First-term Trump VP: ‘If America isn’t leading the free world, the free world is not being led.’
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Nation & World
Sustainability remains hot topic in corporate America
Low-carbon energy firm CEO says executives dialed in on climate change, pondering adjustments despite shifts in Washington
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Science & Tech
Methane tracking satellite lost in space — what now?
Enough data collected already to map potent greenhouse gas emissions, says lead researcher
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Nation & World
How Supreme Court may get chance to re-examine landmark climate ruling
Legal scholars say justices could reverse ruling allowing EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on technical grounds amid shift in court makeup
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Science & Tech
Seeking a carbon-capture breakthrough
Chemist Richard Liu harnesses sunlight to trap greenhouse gases
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Health
How to reverse nation’s declining birth rate
Health experts urge policies that buoy families: lower living costs, affordable childcare, help for older parents who want more kids
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Health
Keeping kids safe in extreme heat
Experts outline threats to childhood development, school challenges, play-time risks
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Health
Is dirty air driving up dementia rates?
Federal funding cuts halt 3 studies exploring how pollution and heat affect the brain and heart
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Campus & Community
‘Learning without a net’
Here are 5 students doing summer research with faculty in topics from heat mortality to epigenetics, Legionnaires’ disease to anorexia
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Health
Overlooked climate-change danger: Wildfire smoke
Researchers rush to get hands around multiple serious health risks as blazes mount — and get bigger
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Science & Tech
Snapshots from front lines of federal research funding cuts
Faculty detail scramble to save work and talented researchers, both those in labs and in pipeline
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Health
‘Have a healthy respect that nature sometimes bites back’
It’s a bad year for ticks. Here are some precautions, and steps to take if you get bitten.
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Science & Tech
Numbers tell one story about climate change. People tell another.
Policy expert Dustin Tingley studies transition to renewable energy, knows from work, life how economic shifts rattle through communities
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Health
Wildfire smoke can harm heart and lungs even after the fire has ended
First study to fully assess its impact on all major types of cardiovascular, respiratory diseases
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Campus & Community
Deep in the Amazon, local politicians resist gold miners — and inspire thesis
Encounter during rainforest trip leads Eduardo Vasconcelos to research focus
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Campus & Community
Frustrated fighting wildfires in L.A., he resolved to build better tools
Rupen Dajee launches tech startup to aid emergency responders, leveraging lessons learned firsthand as EMT, firefighter
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Science & Tech
Experts see a ‘low information’ reversal of U.S. climate leadership
Salata panelists warn that damage from executive orders and cuts to research funding won’t be easily overcome
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Nation & World
How hot is too hot?
Teaming up with grassroots organizers in India, Harvard researchers are collecting data to help workers adapt to dangerous spikes in heat
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Campus & Community
Helping the U.S. fight addiction, cancer, other afflictions
A snapshot of research backed by partnership between government agencies and higher ed
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Nation & World
EPA plans target climate change initiatives
Environmental law experts say rollbacks will reverse advances in recent decades
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Science & Tech
Lower canopies show struggle for tropical forests
NASA technology guides scientists as they track health of ‘Earth’s lungs’
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Science & Tech
AC use to surge as world gets hotter. Harvard startup has a solution.
Novel system works like a coffee filter to dry, cool air more efficiently
