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.

Tar Sands and the Pipeline

A New York Times Letter to the Editor by Eric Chivian

February 8, 2012

Got Local Food?

Report led by Deishin Lee examines the operational tradeoffs in the supply chain and explores how "local food" can become a viable sourcing strategy for a large retailer

February 8, 2012

For Cutting-Edge Biomedical Materials, Try Corn

Students in the undergraduate teaching labs at SEAS are investigating plant-based materials that may help regrow damaged neurons

February 6, 2012

News Archive

Repeats every day until Sun Feb 12 2012 .

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Sunday 12

69˚ S. (The Shackleton Project)

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 trans-Antarctic expedition—the real life story of a group of gentlemen frozen (literally) in crisis—is retold through theatre, dance, puppetry, photography and film

12:00 am

Paramount Center, Emerson College, 559 Washington Street, Boston

Thursday 16

Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change

“Global Change, Biodiversity and Poverty: Insights from the Himalaya” with Kamaljit S. Bawa, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts-Boston

5:00 pm

Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

Thursday 16

The Biology and Evolution of Mollusks

Exhibition Opening Lecture by Gonzalo Giribet

6:00 pm

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

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GSD 5206: Planning and Environmental Law

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Announcements

Green Conversations welcomes Andrew R. Revkin, New York Times Dot Earth columnist TONIGHT, Feb. 9, 5pm, CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, for "Finding Yes: Creating a Constructive Global Conversation About Our Planet's Future."

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