Tag: Elizabeth Wolkovich

  • Nation & World

    As climate changes, so will wine grapes

    Though vineyards might be able to counteract some effects of climate change by planting lesser-known grape varieties, scientists and vintners need a better understanding of the wide diversity of grapes and their adaptions.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Climate made scary

    Journalist David Wallace-Wells and others debated the most effective way to communicate climate urgency in a Harvard discussion.

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    Nikhil Advani, (from left) University of Alaska, Nancy Knowlton, World Wildlife Fund, and Cam Webb talk about the best ways to understand and communicate about the environment's future inside the Harvard University Center for the Environment before the evening event at the Geo Lecture Hall.
  • Nation & World

    Warmer weather, finer wines

    By examining more than 500 years of harvest records, researchers found that wine grape harvests across France, on average, now occur two weeks earlier than in the past, largely due to climate change. While earlier harvests are normally associated with higher quality wines, researchers caution the trend likely won’t last.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Altered oceans

    Proper management can bring species back from the brink and create healthier ocean ecosystems, experts said during a Center for the Environment panel.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Climate test for forests

    New research on northeastern forests is examining how the earlier arrival of warm weather might clash with genetic programming tuned to lengthening days and the duration and depth of winter cold.

    4 minutes
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    Wine watcher

    Harvard biologist Elizabeth Wolkovich is studying wine grape phenology and changes that might be needed in a warming world.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    You call this spring?

    Despite this year’s long winter and slow-warming spring, Harvard experts say that climate change hasn’t gone on hiatus. Long-term evidence indicates that spring in Boston has begun coming weeks earlier over the last century. The Gazette spoke with Elizabeth Wolkovich, a recently appointed assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, about spring’s arrival, climate change,…

    7 minutes