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Earth

Yanomami women's leaders Floriza da Cruz Pinto and Maria de Jesus Lima, speak at BU Hillel about struggles over indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Science & Technology

Yanomami Women Speak of Amazon Struggles

December 19, 2017

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

University News

BU Trustees Approve Aggressive Climate Action Plan

December 8, 2017

Boston University skyline

Earth

POV: How BOLD Is BU?

December 5, 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

Earth

University Launches $20 Million Innovate@BU Initiative for Students

November 29, 2017

Green-colored rendering of Boston skyline

Earth & Environment

Can Boston Be a Green City by 2050?

October 19, 2017

crack in Larsen C ice shelf

Climate Change

What Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg Could Mean for the Future

July 17, 2017

A Lone Star Tick crawls on a human finger

Earth & Environment

Fighting Tick-Borne Disease with Computer Science

July 6, 2017

maple trees with syrup buckets during winter

Climate Change

Climate Change and an “Overlooked” Nutrient: Silica

June 29, 2017

Hot sun burns behind electricity power lines

Climate Change

The High Cost of Summer Energy Price Spikes

June 16, 2017

Donald Trump makes and announcement in the White House Rose Garden that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord

Politics

The Fallout from Trump’s Paris Accord Withdrawal

June 7, 2017

Mario J. Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winner, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego

Health & Medicine

Nobel Winner Mario Molina Is Baccalaureate Speaker

May 17, 2017

Peter Busher display runs from fur to fossils in his College of General Studies office

Earth

Office Artifacts: Peter Busher

May 10, 2017

Climate Change

Putting Cities on the Climate Map

May 4, 2017

Brian Woerner is equally at home offering a tasting at Follow The Honey in Cambridge or working with locals in Tanzania to help produce a sustainable supply of organic honey.

Questrom

A Global Taste of Honey for Questrom Grad Student

May 1, 2017

illustration symbolizing the effect of dioxins and other toxic chemical chemical carcinogens in the environment that cause breast cancer

Cancer

Dioxins Point to Targets for Treating Breast Cancer

April 24, 2017

coal

Sustainability

POV: Uniting against Executive Order on the Clean Power Plan

April 5, 2017

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

Climate Change

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

March 21, 2017

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation