This session focuses on a warming-driven phenomenon—the rapid thawing of Arctic permafrost—that is contributing simultaneously to the most vexing of Arctic warming's impacts both in the region and around the world, and will target experts and non-experts who are interested in understanding the science and policy issues at the heart of this widely underestimated facet of the global climate-change challenge.... Read more about Arctic Permafrost Thaw: Science & Policy

Join M-RCBG for a Regulatory Policy Program seminar featuring Cheryl LaFleur, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University; and former Chair and Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as they discuss "Challenges to Successful Decarbonization in the US and Strategies to Overcome Them."... Read more about Regulatory Policy Program Webinar

Join M-RCBG for a Regulatory Policy Program seminar featuring Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, HLS.... Read more about The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

Harvard community members are invited to a discussion with Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Administrator from 1993-2001, and Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy 2009-2011.... Read more about The First 100 Days: A Conversation with Carol Browner on Environmental Policy After the Election

JoAnne Yates, MIT, and Craig Murphy, Wellesley, will give a talk on "The Evolving Interface between Voluntary Standards and Government Regulation in the US and Europe."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Jayita Sarkar, Diplomatic History, Boston University, will give a talk on "Ploughshares and Swords: Technopolitics and Geopolitics in India's Nuclear Program."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Andre Uhl, Visual Studies, Harvard FAS, will present "Shifting Baselines—Artificial Intelligence and the Ethical Singularity."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Meg Perret, History of Science, Harvard FAS, will present "Climate Change Creates Female Super-Race": Male Extinction, Endangered Turtles & Coral Reef Collapse."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Noelle Eckley Selin, MIT, and Henrik Selin, Boston University, will present "Mercury Stories: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Analyzing Sustainability Challenges."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Daniel Hirschman, Sociology, Brown, will present "The Costs of Climate Change."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Whitney E. Laemmli, History, Carnegie Mellon, will present "'Alien Gesticulations': Movement Science in Germany, 1928-1936."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Janet A. Vertesi, Sociology, Princeton, will present "Shaping Science: Organizations, Cultures, and Decision-Making on NASA's Teams."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Noah Walker-Crawford, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, will give a talk on "The Politics of Personhood in Climate Change Litigation."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Ben Hurlbut, Center for Biology and Society, ASU, will present "Can't Stop Progress: Inevitability as Authorization in the Politics of Genome Editing."... Read more about STS Circle at Harvard

Interested in the circular economy and passionate about sustainability? Come join an interdisciplinary group of students across the Harvard Kennedy, Business, Engineering, and Design Schools in organizing a series of virtual conference sessions that rethinks how to make circularity both competitive and sustainable.... Read more about Harvard Circular Economy Information Session II