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Geosciences

Rows of green plants grow in sunlight

Greenhouse Gases

As Our Planet Gets Greener, Plants Are Slowing Global Warming

January 29, 2020

A firefighter watches wildfires burn a patch of forest in Australia.

Climate Change

How Global Warming Helped Ignite One of Australia’s Worst Fire Seasons

January 14, 2020

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87) and its shadow. The shadow of the black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape

Research that Rocks

12 Breakthroughs That Wowed Us in 2019

December 19, 2019

Climate Change

As Climate Warms, Increased Energy Needs to Power Air-Conditioning Could Make a Bad Situation Worse

July 22, 2019

wind turbine

Climate Change

Eight Ways Boston Could Become Carbon Free

January 29, 2019

Trees and snowline of a Northeastern Forest.

Climate Change

Warmer Winters Are Harming Northeast Forests

December 11, 2018

NASA artistic rendering of the InSight Lander vehicle on the Mars surface.

Mars

Another Mars Landing! But What Now?

November 29, 2018

cattle and trees illustration

Economics

Farmers and Forests

February 9, 2018

When charged particles from the sun hit the Earth’s magnetic field, they can generate the dancing lights of the aurora. The ANDESITE mission will help reveal how the energy that creates the aurora passes from the Sun into Earth’s atmosphere. Photo courtesy of Greenland Travel

Space Sciences

NASA to Launch BU Student-Built Microsatellites

January 22, 2018

Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., is a more than 3,700-acre ecological research area where scientists have been carrying out experiments since 1907.

Climate Change

CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change

December 14, 2017

Diane Thompson extracting a core from a live Porites coral colony at Kiritimati in 2012.

Geosciences

Winds of Change

December 11, 2017

ACES CO2 map visualizing carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in Rhode Island

Climate Change

CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

December 4, 2017

maple trees with syrup buckets during winter

Climate Change

Climate Change and an “Overlooked” Nutrient: Silica

June 29, 2017

New Bedford Harbor

Environmental Health

New Bedford Harbor Identified as Major Source of Airborne PCBs

March 23, 2017

View of distant rain storm and storm clouds

Geosciences

When Earth Speaks to Sky

August 4, 2016

NASA Image of the planet Jupiter

Space Sciences

Red Spot, Hot Spot

August 3, 2016

Data Science

Mapmaker/Matchmaker

March 26, 2015

Richard Murray, Directory of the National Science Foundation Ocean Science Division, on board the research vessel Knorr

Environment & Ecology

Richard Murray Goes to Washington

March 16, 2015

Environment & Ecology

An Ecosystem on Steroids

November 25, 2014

South Africa is one place where anti-shark netting has been widely deployed. Photo by Stuart Philpott / Alamy Stock Photo

Environment & Ecology

The Future, Buried in the Deep

November 17, 2014

The Future, Buried in the Deep