Faculty in the News

By Roxana Shafiee and Dan Schrag Electrification through heat pumps is a primary strategy for decarbonizing residential heating in Massachusetts. The state has announced ambitions for 65% of residential-scale heating to be heat pump equipment by 2030 and...

A detailed account of two Harvard Climate Action Week events, organized by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative By Jennifer Nash, HBS Business & Environment Blog When I arrived at Klarman...

HUCE Faculty Associate Aaron Bernstein discusses the personalized attention that should be paid to older people during heat waves and other extreme weather events By Anita Snow, AP News Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer...

New HUCE Environmental Fellow Anna Lea Albright and HUCE Faculty Associate Peter Huybers found evidence to confirm the hypothesis that Monet's paintings capture increasingly polluted skies during the Industrial Revolution By Jacopo Prisco, CNN Style In a...

A new study led by HUCE Faculty Associate Daniel Jacob uncovers that between 2010 and 2019, planet-warming methane pollution from the US oil and gas industry was 70% higher than the EPA's own estimates By Ella Nilsen, CNN Planet-warming methane pollution...

HUCE Director Dan Schrag discusses the obstacles to solving climate change, climate optimism, and adaptation via Neiman Reports Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, professor of environmental science and...

HUCE Faculty Associate Steven Wofsy is the principal investigator for the satellite project MethaneSAT, which aims to spot global sources of methane emissions By Alvin Powell, The Harvard Gazette For Steven Wofsy, the satellite is worth sticking around...

Harvard researchers will work to de-risk promising ideas, including a greenhouse gas emission-free solid refrigerant project led by HUCE Faculty Associate Jarad Mason SEAS Communications Projects emerging from this year’s competitive selection process...

Five research clusters recently received grants from the Salata Institute to tackle climate change and focus on projects that will have meaningful impact By Alvin Powell, The Harvard Gazette The recipients of the first grants awarded by Harvard’s Salata...

HUCE Director Dan Schrag and University of Minnesota Professor Carlise Ford Runge comment on the debate around the use of fossil fuels By Dan Schrag Carlisle and Ford Runge, The Wall Street Journal via HKS Belfer Center In its push for greener energy...