Featured series 
Tag: Climate Change
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Science & Tech
Tracking the pollution amid the remote
A national research project led by Harvard scientist Steven Wofsy tries to fill in the blanks of understanding how the Earth’s atmosphere works by crisscrossing the globe by jet, measuring air changes.
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Science & Tech
Developing fast, but sustainably
The Harvard Sustainability Science Program marked the beginning of its third phase Sept. 19 with a forum on issues facing the rapidly industrializing major nations of China, Brazil, and India.
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Science & Tech
Guarding the forests
The regeneration of the region’s forests during the last 150 years is an environmental gift that New Englanders shouldn’t squander with thoughtless development, the director of the Harvard Forest said in a talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Science & Tech
Gauging forest changes
Harvard scientists are leading an international collaboration that aims to coordinate research, data collection, scientist training, and analysis of information gleaned from two networks of forest plots, one through the Harvard-affiliated Center for Tropical Forest Science and the second created by Chinese scientists.
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Campus & Community
Not just hot air
Efforts to make the University sustainable have played a critical role in changing everyday behavior, from recycling to composting to conserving energy. In the process, Harvard serves as a kind of experimental model.
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Science & Tech
Climate change for the long haul
Human-induced changes to the Earth from emission of greenhouse gases are here to stay, with computer models showing that changes made by 2100 could take 1,000 years to decline.
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Nation & World
Challenges, solutions for South Asia
A two-day symposium on the future of South Asia examined several key challenges facing the region, as well as solutions on issues ranging from climate change to population control.
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Science & Tech
A match of climate and history
Professor Michael McCormick has been working with tree-ring experts, bringing the perspective of long-ago writings to understanding environmental conditions.
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Science & Tech
Regimes won’t halt climate change
Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, says the world should stop waiting for governments to solve the global warming problem. He called on academics to band together to find workable solutions.
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Campus & Community
Harvard deems April Earth Month
April is Earth Month at Harvard, an inaugural initiative featuring campuswide events and activities to celebrate and raise awareness about environmental issues.
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Campus & Community
Refrigerants, Naturally! wins Roy Award
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced March 24 that the 2011 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will be given to Refrigerants, Naturally!, an alliance of corporations substituting environmentally harmful fluorinated gases with natural refrigerants in their commercial refrigeration installations.
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Science & Tech
Solar’s time still on horizon
Bruce Sohn, president of the power company First Solar, says that reducing the cost of solar energy is on the horizon, but solar power has to grow dramatically if it is to replace fossil fuels.
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Science & Tech
Poor prospects
Small and midsize cities in poor countries will be among those that suffer most from climate change’s droughts, floods, landslides, and rising waters, an expert on the world’s urban poor said in a talk at Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies.
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Ice sheet in peril? Gravity to the rescue
Gravity’s surprising effects when the Earth’s ice sheets melt can help to stabilize ones, such as those found in West Antarctica, that are grounded below sea level.
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Science & Tech
Getting genetic leg up on climate change
Harvard botanist Charles Davis is examining evolutionary relationships between species affected by climate change for clues to past and future changes.
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Campus & Community
Fakhri A. Bazzaz
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 19, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Fakhri A. Bazzaz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Bazzaz was an ecologist who greatly influenced scientific thought and public policy on climate change.
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Nation & World
Food for thought
Harvard authorities on Southeast Asia see trouble on the horizon for rice production and consumption by billions of people dependent on the grain. The threats come from water shortages, salinization, and bad resource management.
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Science & Tech
Doubting Thomas nation
Why aren’t you listening? Scientists discuss the difficulty of transferring scientific consensus to the public.
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Nation & World
Gordon Brown’s prescription
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s prescription for a shaken world economy: Coordinate action, and write a global economic constitution that reflects morality while acknowledging business needs.
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Science & Tech
A clean break
Engineers’ finding could provide crucial clues about cloud formation, differences between natural and polluted environments, and climate change.
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Science & Tech
The speedup of climate change
Scientist discusses growing effects of global climate change with members of Harvard’s Class of 2014.
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Science & Tech
Rolling back the forest canopy
A new report led by researchers at the Harvard Forest says New England woodlands have reached a tipping point, declining in all six states for the first time in 150 years. The report calls for conservation of 70 percent of the forestland.
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Science & Tech
Trees tell of shifting world
Trees from the Harvard Forest to the Amazon rainforest are experiencing changing climactic conditions, with rising temperatures potentially making tropical trees a significant source of carbon dioxide.
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Nation & World
Preserving both planet and profits
Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson delivered a talk last week in honor of Earth Day that offered a business strategy aimed at saving the planet.
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Science & Tech
Battling climate change on all fronts
Harvard’s research spans the gamut from the sciences to the humanities, examining key questions about this critical challenge facing humanity.
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Campus & Community
Campaign to turn Crimson green
Harvard makes great strides in cutting its everyday energy use, saving money and greening the campus in the process.
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Campus & Community
It’s lights out
For the second consecutive year, Harvard University will join the city of Boston by turning out the lights for “Earth Hour,” a major community awareness event about climate change, taking place in Boston and cities worldwide.
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Science & Tech
An earlier changing climate
Human societies in Europe at the end of the last ice age expanded north across a harsh but changing environment, as glaciers melted and the world got warmer and more humid.
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Science & Tech
New source of natural gas
Chesapeake Energy’s chief executive officer, Aubrey McClendon, struck a positive note on the future prominence of natural gas as an energy source, though some critics decried new gas extraction techniques.
