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Briscoe honored for “unparalleled contributions to global and local management of water that have improved the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide”The Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of water,” has been...

Delegates from around the world have gathered in Warsaw to discuss a path toward a post-Kyoto Protocol climate agreementBy Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/11/climate-convergence/ Delegates from around the world...

Harvard climate scientist use retreating glaciers as platform for HUCE co-sponsored discussion By Colin Durrant, Harvard Staff Writer Read the Harvard Gazette article “Sometimes you go out over the horizon and you don’t come back,” says photographer James...

HUCE Director Daniel Schrag featured in New York Times Dot Earth blog By Andrew Revkin Click for Full Story This graph is from “ Climate Risks: Linking Narratives to Action,” an important new essay in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on the gap...

Researchers, Professor Andrew Richardson, find that a changing atmosphere affects how much water trees require. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/07/efficiency-in-the-forest/

Scientists, including Michael McElroy, identify security risks from climate change, and recommend investments in monitoring and forecasting to prepare for growing threats. Increasingly frequent extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, severe...

In a recent “Boston Globe” article, professor Robert N. Stavins outlines a report that responds to a proposal to require monitoring and reporting to promote energy efficiency. The proposal, which was put forth by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, calls for...