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Earth & Environment

A white harp seal pup in the arctic.

Climate Change

Feeling Stressed about the Environment? You’re Not Alone

April 22, 2019

Portrait of Jacob Jaskiel, kneeling, and Hayley Goss, standing, on a Boston Harbor beach with the Boston skyline in the background.

Marine Biology

Microplastic Pollution Found in Seagrasses

February 18, 2019

Planting of local vegetables; Landscape of Guilin; Li River.Yangshuo County; Guilin City; Province; China.

Climate Change

Humans Are Officially Greening the Earth. Is That a Good Thing?

February 11, 2019

wind turbine

Climate Change

Eight Ways Boston Could Become Carbon Free

January 29, 2019

Thomas Zurbuchen, addressing a crowd gathered at BU’s Barristers Hall, talked about NASA’s current and future space missions. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Space Sciences

If Traveling to Space Was as Easy as Traveling to Paris

December 18, 2018

Trees and snowline of a Northeastern Forest.

Climate Change

Warmer Winters Are Harming Northeast Forests

December 11, 2018

colorful rendition of the democratic and republican political party mascots

Economics

How Corporations Disguise Lobbying as Philanthropy

December 3, 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

Urban Health

Eggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead

September 14, 2018

sunrise in the woods

Earth & Environment

Four Things to Know about Fungi “Climate Warriors”

August 3, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

CAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions

July 5, 2018

Religion

Christianity Can Be Good for the Environment

June 14, 2018

Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks at the Boston University School of Public Health symposium on climate change

Climate Change

SPH Hosts Climate Change Symposium

April 24, 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

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

CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change