Featured series 
Tag: Climate
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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
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Science & Tech
When a stove’s virtues amount to more than just hot air
Science historian examines how Benjamin Franklin’s invention sparked new thinking on weather, technology
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Health
Sick again? Maybe your building is to blame.
Take our research-based quiz to learn more about how indoor air quality can harm or protect your health
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Nation & World
At India Climate Conference, Harvard’s South Asia ties take center stage
At India Climate Conference, Harvard’s South Asia ties take center stage
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Campus & Community
5 things we learned this week
How closely have you been following the Gazette? Take our quiz to find out.
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Campus & Community
How to escape your silo (spoiler: friendship helps)
Co-authors of ‘What We Can’t Burn’ formed lasting bond even as they argued about best way to fight climate change
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Science & Tech
When the woods are your climate change lab
For these researchers, Harvard Forest is a labor of love, and that love is changing
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Nation & World
‘Existential questions’ around U.S. climate policy, but resolve, too
Analysts weigh in on Paris withdrawal and other Trump actions
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Nation & World
Nuclear has changed. Will the U.S. change with it?
Citing safety improvements and rising demand, analyst expects revival of energy with a checkered history
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Science & Tech
A common sense, win-win idea — and both right, left agree
Poll measures support for revenue-sharing plan on renewable energy that helps states, localities, and environment
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Science & Tech
Climate change experts see dark clouds ahead
Salata Institute panelists predict legal, regulatory setbacks and areas of hope as Trump administration prepares to take over
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Campus & Community
Not so much the form, but the function
Brutalist, iconic Gund Hall undergoes 1st major renovation since opening in ’72. Now, hopefully, the roof will stop leaking.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, MIT, Mass General form renewable energy collaboration
Group will include higher education, healthcare, and cultural institutions, seek to leverage buying power to advance cost-effective, green production projects
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Science & Tech
Grappling with how clearings may support rainforest animal life
New research offers detailed overview of layout, makeup of canopy gaps in Congo
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Science & Tech
Amid Hurricane Milton’s devastation, a sliver of good news
Cellphone data suggest evacuation mandates, warning systems worked
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Campus & Community
From the forest to a leaf
New Herbaria director studies plants via satellite and microscope for insights on changing planet
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Health
Plastics are everywhere, even in our bodies
We ingest equivalent of credit card per week — how worried should we be? In ‘Harvard Thinking,’ experts discuss how to minimize exposure, possible solutions.
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Science & Tech
What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?
Giant impact had silver lining for life, according to new study
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Science & Tech
Journey to a key front in climate-change fight
Amazon immersion fosters partnerships, offers students, researchers hard look at threats to economic security, environment of rainforest as Earth warms
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Science & Tech
A birder’s biggest enemy in rainforest: complacency
Senior integrative biology concentrator spots 121 species during research, teaching intensive in Amazon
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Science & Tech
Redefining the good life
Climate activist urges people to counter a culture run on fear and fossil fuel
