Boston University

Environment & Ecology

Boston University professor of biology and a social insect researcher James F. A. Traniello poses sitting among insect specimens in his lab.

Accolades

James Traniello Elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science

December 18, 2018

Trees and snowline of a Northeastern Forest.

Climate Change

Warmer Winters Are Harming Northeast Forests

December 11, 2018

A diver reels in a line near a bleached colony of Boulder Star Coral at East Flower Garden Bank.

Marine Biology

Inside the Search for a Coral Killer

October 1, 2018

Lonchura castaneothorax and Lonchura grandis species of Finches from New Guinea standing on a branch

Biology

Birds of a Feather

February 12, 2018

cattle and trees illustration

Economics

Farmers and Forests

February 9, 2018

red tide

Data Science

Can Scientists Learn to Make “Nature Forecasts” Just as We Forecast the Weather?

January 31, 2018

Romanian wildflowers

Environment & Ecology

Is species richness increasing? An intense ecological debate

January 22, 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

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 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

M/V Shear Water

Environment & Ecology

Hurricane Irma Wreaked Havoc Under the Sea, Too

November 30, 2017

Green-colored rendering of Boston skyline

Earth & Environment

Can Boston Be a Green City by 2050?

October 19, 2017

Biologist David Obura diving in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) to examine coral reef recovery

Marine Biology

Coral Reef Recovery

October 11, 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

Man shucks an ear of corn in a corn field. USDA photo by Christina Reed.

Climate Change

What If the World’s Major Food Crops Fail at the Same Time?

June 20, 2017

Photo of Water Drop on Feather 1, taken by Boston University mechanical engineeriing researchers James Bird and Samira Shiri during research on heat exchange properties of superhydrophobic materials

Engineering

How Much Heat Can Bouncing Raindrops Leave Behind, or Take Away?

June 19, 2017

Hot sun burns behind electricity power lines

Climate Change

The High Cost of Summer Energy Price Spikes

June 16, 2017

The High Cost of Summer Energy Price Spikes