Featured series 
Tag: Climate
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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
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Science & Tech
Analysis finds flaw in U.S. plan to cut vehicle emissions — and possible solution
College researchers say battery issue will hamper needed rise in EV production, but hybrids can help fill gap
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Arts & Culture
This is how you dated before there were apps
Writer Simon Rich sketches life in satiric, post-climate-change dystopia through a great-grandfather’s reminiscences
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Nation & World
EVs fight warming but are costly. So why aren’t we driving $10,000 Chinese imports?
Experts say tension between trade, green-tech policies hampers climate change advances; more targeted response needed
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Science & Tech
Did lawmakers know role of fossil fuels in climate change during Clean Air Act era?
New study suggests they did, offering insight into key issue in landmark 2022 Supreme Court ruling on EPA
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Work & Economy
Revising the cost of climate change
New study of economic toll yields projections ‘six times larger than previous estimates’
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Health
If it feels too hot to run, maybe it is
Experts who have seen health consequences close-up offer guidelines for summer athletes
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Science & Tech
Early warning sign of extinction?
Fossil record stretching millions of years shows tiny ocean creatures on the move before Earth heats up
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Nation & World
Forget ‘doomers.’ Warming can be stopped, top climate scientist says
Michael Mann points to prehistoric catastrophes, modern environmental victories
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Campus & Community
Progress and challenges on the road to net zero
New reporting requirement for public companies ‘a meaningful step forward,’ says director of sustainable investing at HMC
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Campus & Community
Sustainability programs’ focus will expand at Harvard Extension
New director brings global perspective as students address international concerns
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Science & Tech
Climate alignment is no easy task
Experts at the Salata Institute outline tensions between global and local priorities
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Science & Tech
A playbook for policy change
Leah Stokes turns a love for the wilderness into a commitment to help mitigate climate change
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Science & Tech
Herbaria’s use and importance grows with climate change
In race against extinction, new agreement supports Harvard’s work to analyze and digitize its medicinal plant collections
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Arts & Culture
Love the clothes you have
‘Visible mending’ workshop takes aim at fast fashion’s disposable culture. Here, stitches and patches are things of beauty.
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Nation & World
Letter from COP28
Angela Zhong details racing through security lines, talking oil palm deforestation, interviewing Al Gore
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Science & Tech
More solar energy needed, but clearing forests for panels may not be way to do it
Harvard-led analysis suggests incentives to save carbon-absorbing trees, siting projects on rooftops, developed areas.
