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Sustainability

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MacArthur Fellowship

BU Ecologist Lucy Hutyra Wins a 2023 MacArthur “Genius Grant”

October 4, 2023

Photo: Group photo of Assistant Professor of Biology, Sarah Davies (center) and PhD student, Maria Valadex Ingersoll (CAS 23) and Dr Hannah Aichelman (right) (CAS 23). The three women pose in a lab as Davies holds up a sample of bleached coral and another sample of algae rests on the lab tables in front of Ingersoll.

Coral Reefs

For Coral Reefs, Temperature Is Everything—Is It Too Late to Save Them?

September 26, 2023

Photo: A group of people pose in font of a building with glass doors. Pictured (from left): Saylor Williams, Manpreet Singh (GRS’24), Gloria Waters, Rebecca Pearl-Martinez, Golden (CAMED’27); Angie Serrano, a BU medical school assistant professor of vascular biology; Dennis Carlberg, and Greg Miller.

Sustainability

How to Make Research Labs More Sustainable

June 20, 2023

Photo: College of Engineering professors (from left) Rabia Yazicigil, a white woman with short curly hair and wearing a black blouse, oversized blue blazer, and black pants, Mo Khalil, A tan man wearing glasses, brown sweater, and black pants, and Doug Densmore, a light-skinned Black man wearing a long sleeve collared grey shirt and black pants in a lab. Yazicigil and Mo Khalil look to Densmore as he talks and gesticulates.

Biomanufacturing

Turning Trash into Medicines, Machine Oils, Cosmetics, and More

June 15, 2023

Photo: Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts in the background as Peter Schroedl, a person wearing black clothes, a face mask, orange neon vest collects specimens from volcanic rocks in the foreground.

Microbes

What Microbes Can Tell Us about Life on Earth and in Space

April 24, 2023

Photo: To the far left, Andrew Reid Bell, a white man wearing a green cap, looks on as a small group of dark-skinned Black women and men look to tablets on a multi-colored, checkered long table. They are in a small wooden dwelling with an open doorway and cross-patterned open windows letting light in.

Conservation

How Do We Make Farming Better for the Planet? Ask Women

March 16, 2023

Photo: The Tobin Bridge is shown over the Mystic River in Massachusetts. A large, cantilever truss bridge is shown over a slightly foggy body of water with a small line of boats docked underneath. The city of Boston can be seen in the distant skyline.

Climate Resilience

Climate Change Is Threatening the Mystic River Watershed—Can It Be Saved?

March 7, 2023

Photo: Close-up side-view shot of a cooking pot on a gas stove. Various kitchen appliances can also be seen on the counter in the background.

Gas stoves

Should You Replace Your Gas Stove?

January 26, 2023

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2022

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

Photo: Newly installed Nexamp solar panels at the Local 103 headquarters in Dorchester. Large solar panels cover a rooftop on a Boston building. A city skyline and distant white wind turbine are shown in the distance.

Climate Change

POV: Local Climate Action Matters Now More than Ever

November 15, 2022

Photo: The sun sets behind signage for the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. The large sign reads "COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, 2022 Egypt" and is shown in shadow against the setting sun. A few large clown fish figures can be seen below the sign.

Climate Change

Urgency, Accountability, and Private Jets at UN Climate Summit COP27

November 14, 2022

Photo of chicken kebabs and sausages on a propane grill.

Food Ethics

Firing Up the Grill? Why It’s So Hard to Give Up Meat

July 17, 2022

Photo of Pamela Templer (center), Shawn Jones (left), and Yasmin Romitti. From left, a tall Black man with glasses, a dark grey blazer, purpled collared shirt and black pants stands next to a shorter white woman with arms crossed wearing black blouse and pants and red cardigan, and on right a younger, shorter white woman wearing a black and white polka dot shirt and jeans. They all stand, pose, and smile next to each other.

Climate Change

Building a Diverse, Strong Climate Workforce

June 10, 2022

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Earth & Environment

As Climate Change Gets Worse, Science Provides Hope and Possibility

April 21, 2022

Photo of Benjamin Sovacool. A middle-aged white man wearing glasses and a light pink plaid shirt and jeans poses next to an open window and lightly smiles at the camera.

Sustainability and Climate Change

BU Institute to Focus on Equity and Justice in the Climate Change Fight

March 15, 2022

Image of BU Earth and environment researchers Catherine Mahoney, and Amanda Vieillard at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in Boston, Mass. The women crouch in the yellow grass and set up portable carbon sensors. The Boston City Skyline is seen behind them.

Blue Carbon

Empowering Citizen Scientists to Study and Protect Coastal Wetlands

March 3, 2022

Photo of activists holding cardboard cutouts of President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi protest outside of the International Monetary Fund headquarters during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021.

International Relations

Why the World Monetary System Needs a New Set of Rules

February 28, 2022

Boston's city skyline showcasing the greenery and trees in the foreground

Forest Edges

City Trees and Soil Are Sucking More Carbon Out of the Atmosphere Than Previously Thought

February 16, 2022

Inventing

Engineering Scholar Greg Blonder Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

December 14, 2021

Engineering Scholar Greg Blonder Elected to the National Academy of Inventors