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public policy

Smart Cities Are Summoning the Future Now with Sustainable Policies, US and Canadian Planners Tell WBUR’s CitySpace Audience

August 7, 2019

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Harvard Museum of Natural History Climate Change Exhibition

June 28, 2019

A shoot of the PSA announcement "The Love Planet"

Film & TV

COM Student-Made PSAs Underscore the Urgency of Climate Crisis

June 6, 2019

Mariette DiChristina

Business & Law

New College of Communication Dean Is Scientific American Editor-in-Chief

June 6, 2019

The Institute of Contemporary Art Watershed exterior

Film & TV

Learning about Climate Change at the ICA Watershed

May 28, 2019

satellite image of Boston, MA

Earth

Orbiting NASA Instrument to Examine Boston’s Carbon Emissions, Plant Life

May 14, 2019

Solar panels in Venezuela

Global

Can Latin America Jump-start Our Clean Energy Future?

May 13, 2019

Students can drop their unwanted items—clothing, shoes, accessories, kitchenware, and knickknacks—in Goodwill donation bins across campus through May 16. Photo by BU Today.

Sustainability

Moving Out? Don’t Throw Away Those Old Clothes

May 8, 2019

Max Bard standing next to Deborah Kahn

University News

Using Our Junk, Sculptor Wins 2019 Kahn Award and $20,000 Prize

May 2, 2019

people milling about near the chowderfest booth

Earth

BU’s Annual Earth Day Festivals Kick Off Today on Medical Campus

April 18, 2019

Environmental Health

Are There Toxins Hiding in Your Sofa? Probably

March 20, 2019

Many spring wildflowers, such as this bird’s-foot violet, are now leafing out and flowering one week earlier than they did 160 years ago. Photos by Richard B. Primack

Climate Change

Climate Change Throws Shade on Forest Wildflowers

March 20, 2019

two kids playing soccer on the beach

Arts & Culture

BU, Nicaragua Students, Peace Corps Work to Call Attention to Country’s Climate Change

March 19, 2019

The first new geothermal wells—each 1500 feet deep—have been drilled into the subterranean layers of the new BU Data Sciences Center. Courtesy of Chris Kenney

Climate Change

Historic, and Loud, Geothermal Drilling Gets Underway

February 27, 2019

Photo by Quinn Nietfeld on Unsplash

Science & Technology

POV: Grand Canyon Celebrates 100th Anniversary as a US National Park

February 26, 2019

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11) (D-N.Y.) unveiled the Green New Deal earlier this month, a plan to decarbonize the economy within 10 years. Photo by Alex Edelman/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Politics

Student Environmentalists on Alum Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal: Yes, Please

February 22, 2019

Portrait of Mike Wagner standing in front of his Mitsubishi Outland PHEV hybrid vehicle.

Staff

BU Carpenter: From Gas Guzzler to Green Machine

February 21, 2019

A plastic straw and bottle litter the ocean floor

Science & Technology

Prodded by Students, BU Phases Out an Environmental Scourge: Plastic Straws

February 14, 2019

wind turbine

Climate Change

Eight Ways Boston Could Become Carbon Free

January 29, 2019

An SUV emits gas emissions

Public Policy

POV: It’s Time to Dethrone the SUV

January 28, 2019

POV: It’s Time to Dethrone the SUV