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A team of national and international researchers is in Indianapolis measuring greenhouse emissions in the city. Dr. Steven C. Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch professor of atmospheric and environmental science at Harvard University, leads the team consisting...

An Op-Ed by David Keith & Gernot Wagner, ESPP ’02, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ’07 The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago – a time when sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than they are now. Climate...

A Q&A with Terilyn Chen, College '16, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator Harvard College's Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP) Concentration is arguably one of the most diverse fields of study at the college, with a...

HUBweek panel featuring professors James McCarthy and Daniel Schrag says recent past helps to show where action is needed, including in Boston For those wondering what’s needed to face down coming climate-related disasters, the approach is simple...

How the Science, Technology, and Society program, led by Professor Sheila Jasanoff, is striving for a place in the academic fabric of Harvard Margarita Boenig-Liptsin grew up in the shadow of Chernobyl. She was born just one week after the disaster, 150...

Season Spotter, co-created by Professor Andrew Richardson, invites citizen-scientists to help with research By Peter Reuell, Harvard Gazette The options for how to spend your free time are almost endless, whether it’s working out at the gym, curling up...

The Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellowsip in Conservation Biology serves to support the study of conservation biology within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. The fellowship is awarded to an individual who will engage in scientific study...

Researchers, including ESPP Board of Tutors member Andrew Richardson, connect earlier spring to climate change By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer Every spring, as the weather warms, trees up and down the East Coast explode in a display of bright green...

Harvard adds secondary field where undergrads can study climate change By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer A major Antarctic ice sheet has begun a slow, inexorable slide into the sea, scientists said this week. A government report said last week that...

When government ponders helpful policies, Harvard faculty members—including Daniel Schrag and Jim McCarthy—are front and center By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer When Daniel Schrag arrived at Harvard as a 30-year-old geologist interested in...