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Expanding the Reach of the Bionic Leaf

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HUCE postdoctoral fellow Kelsey Sakimoto works with Professors Daniel Nocera and Pamela Silver to tune their "bionic leaf" to help forge a new era of distributed agriculture By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer As the global population rises toward 10...

Students Help Groups to Pursue Climate Action

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Those in Harvard living lab coursework to find practical alternatives to carbon use By Colin Durrant, Harvard Correspondent, Harvard Gazette How could preserving forests in Alaska or reducing nitrogen fertilizer runoff on farms in the Midwest help an...

Students Aiding the Environment

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Five undergraduate women spent the summer researching climate change and sustainability around the world Harvard Gazette By Katie Hammer, Harvard Correspondent Climate change knows no borders. As temperatures and seas rise, ecosystems change, and extreme...

In Search of a Frozen Ocean

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Recent Harvard PhD graduate Christopher Horvat subject of joint film, research expedition to high Arctic Recent Harvard PhD graduate Christopher Horvat has spent the past 6 years modeling how sea ice floes affect Earth's climate and ecology, but never has...

China and India Make Big Strides on Climate Change

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Progress by two of the world's top greenhouse gas producers is a huge lesson for the US The New York Times By The Editorial Board Until recently, China and India have been cast as obstacles, at the very least reluctant conscripts, in the battle against...

Making Sense of Climate Costs

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In Kansas, Korea or New York City, climate and the public good are economist Jisung Park's focus Harvard Gazette By Colin Durrant, Harvard Correspondent This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard's stellar graduates. Growing up between...

Fighting Words from Former EPA Leader

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McCarthy urges scientists to raise their voices on climate change at Climate Week event Harvard Gazette By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Speaking at Harvard this week, former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy urged an audience of climate scientists and...

Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene

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HUCE Fellow Laura Martin and research team explore the role of artificial intelligence in conservation The Atlantic By Ed Yong, Staff Writer In Australia, autonomous killer robots are set to invade the Great Barrier Reef. Their target is the crown-of...

Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies

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Flanked by coal miners at the EPA, President Trump signed an order directing the agency to start the process of rewriting the Clean Power Plan The New York Times By Coral Davenport and Alissa J. Rubin President Trump, flanked by company executives and...