Boston University

Earth

President Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left.

Funding

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

March 21, 2017

Alexa Pisano showing her online store on a laptop

Students

Selling Apparel to Benefit Ocean Conservation

February 21, 2017

Boston University students file past a "Locally Grown" sign in a BU dining hall. BU Dining Services hit its goal of providing 20% sustainable food three years early.

Earth

Going Green Earns Plaudits for BU

February 13, 2017

Anthony Janetos giving presentation

Earth

Climate Task Force Meets Tonight

January 31, 2017

Boston University School of Law tower

Sustainability

School of Law Project Earns Gold LEED Certification

January 26, 2017

Rex Tillerson

Faculty

Taking Stock of the New President’s Foreign Policy Proposals

January 20, 2017

Photo of students walking on campus during a snow storm

Climate Change

Climate Change Skepticism May Hinge on Personal Experience

December 21, 2016

Slash and burn deforestation in Colombia

Remote sensing

Satellite Images Map Deforestation

November 14, 2016

Jennifer Soukup (CAS’18) in her scuba gear in the water looking at a field guide

University News

One Class, One Day: Scientific Diving

October 27, 2016

Workers on the job at Red’s Best, a Boston seafood wholesaler

Food

BU Increases Its Target for Sustainable Food Sources

October 14, 2016

Professor Anthony Janetos gives a presentation at the BU ACSRI Forum on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Science & Technology

Trustees Adopt Broad Climate Change Strategy

September 20, 2016

Eliandro Tavares (CGS’16, CAS’18) measures the diameter of a tree

Climate Change

Studying Climate Change One Tree at a Time

September 19, 2016

Author and Science Writer David Quammen

Communications

David Quammen to Speak at NEIDL Symposium Sunday

September 16, 2016

Matt Thacker holds a blow horn at the Divestment Rally at Marsh Plaza

Climate Change

Students Rally for Fossil Fuel Divestment

September 15, 2016

Squirrel gnawing on a chicken bone

Forensic Science

Toothy Squirrels Could Confuse Crime Scenes

August 30, 2016

Robert Kaufman, professor of of earth and environment in Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, with rooftop solar panels at Boston University

Environment & Ecology

Solar Power Saves Everyone Money

July 25, 2016

Pheidole dentata minor worker ants

Biology

Ants Don’t Get Alzheimer’s

July 11, 2016

Richard Primack at Walden Pond

Earth & Environment

Tracing Water Levels at Walden Pond

June 28, 2016

Students find out how the bucolic surroundings of Mount Auburn Cemetery fit into our social history in a class taught by Charles Ian Stevenson (GRS’13,’19).

Classes

One Class, One Day: Reading Mount Auburn Cemetery

June 21, 2016

Politics

POV: Beyond the Clean Power Plan

May 10, 2016

POV: Beyond the Clean Power Plan