Climate Change

Without action, rising seas will alter civilization's urban footprint, affecting more than 2 billion people. Learn about the Harvard researchers who are working to mitigate Boston's watery future.

Human Health

HSPH professor Marcia Castro has spent more than 10 years studying the thicket of factors contributing to frontier malaria in the Amazon Jungle. Learn about her quest to manage malaria in Brazil.

Energy History

Professor Emma Rothschild's research on environmental history has modern applications. "We want to understand how our societies got to where they are now, with respect to energy use." This kind of information, she says, will "help us think about the enormous energy choices that lie ahead."

Energy

Maine's Fox Islands have become a clean energy lab for "Island Earth." Discover how Harvard professor George Baker used wind power to transform the local energy landscape.

Landscape Urbanism

To really understand a city, architects like Charles Waldheim have to understand its natural landscape. Learn more about how he works with landscape as a medium for designing sustainable cities.

Biodiversity

From the Center's lecture series on Biodiversity, Ecology & Global Change, to the University Herbaria and Harvard Forest, Harvard is rich with opportunities to study and explore biodiversity. Meet OEB professor Paul Moorcroft.

Global Atmosphere

Through his work analyzing the global atmosphere, Professor Daniel Jacob has increasingly been drawn to the Arctic, a region in the midst of radical changes. Discover what his research has shown about rising temperatures in the region.

Sustainability Science

Kennedy School professor William Clark is spearheading efforts to define, describe and advance the process and structures of sustainability science. Learn more about this new academic discipline.

Environmental Chemicals may Thwart Kids' Vaccines

Routine vaccines may not ''take" in children with elevated blood levels of chemicals called PFC, says a study by HSPH adjunct professor Philippe Grandjean

January 25, 2012

International Climate Policy: The Durban Platform Opens a Window

Robert N. Stavins comments on recent climate negotations

January 24, 2012

Harvard Faculty Honored by National Academy of Sciences

Faculty associates Andrew Knoll and Jonathan Losos honored for their extraordinary scientific achievements

January 23, 2012

News Archive

Monday 30

Harvard IO Workshop

"Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power" with Catherine Wolfram from UC, Berkeley

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Littauer, North Yard, Room M-16, 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Sunday 5

Digging for Snow Mastodons: Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies

Paleontologist Dr. Kirk Johnson will share the latest news about Snowmass Village, the massive site that has recently unearthed a treasure trove of over 5,000 fossils of Ice Age animals

2:00 pm

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Thursday 9

Green Conversations

Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times Columnist

5:00 pm

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

More Events

*OEB 290 (formerly *Life Sciences 190r). Microbial Sciences: Chemistry, Ecology and Evolution

This is an interdisciplinary graduate-level and advanced undergraduate-level course in which...

[Earth and Planetary Sciences 187 (formerly Earth and Planetary Sciences 137). Low Temperature Geochemistry II: Modern and Ancient Biogeochemical Processes]

Introduction to biological and organic chemistry of the Earth’s environment. Primary focus on...

[*Environmental Science and Public Policy 90c. Ecology and Land-Use Planning]

Investigation of how local and regional human activities such as housing, agriculture, water...

Announcements

Check out the next Harvard IO Workshop on Monday, January 30 with Catherine Wolfram from UC, Berkeley, on "Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power."

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