Boston University

Earth

University News

University Launches $20 Million Innovate@BU Initiative for Students

November 29, 2017

Green-colored rendering of Boston skyline

Earth & Environment

Can Boston Be a Green City by 2050?

October 19, 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

Hot sun burns behind electricity power lines

Climate Change

The High Cost of Summer Energy Price Spikes

June 16, 2017

Donald Trump makes and announcement in the White House Rose Garden that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord

Science & Technology

The Fallout from Trump’s Paris Accord Withdrawal

June 7, 2017

Mario J. Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winner, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego

Science & Technology

Nobel Winner Mario Molina Is Baccalaureate Speaker

May 17, 2017

Peter Busher display runs from fur to fossils in his College of General Studies office

Earth

Office Artifacts: Peter Busher

May 10, 2017

Climate Change

Putting Cities on the Climate Map

May 4, 2017

Brian Woerner is equally at home offering a tasting at Follow The Honey in Cambridge or working with locals in Tanzania to help produce a sustainable supply of organic honey.

Food

A Global Taste of Honey for Questrom Grad Student

May 1, 2017

illustration symbolizing the effect of dioxins and other toxic chemical chemical carcinogens in the environment that cause breast cancer

Cancer

Dioxins Point to Targets for Treating Breast Cancer

April 24, 2017

coal

Politics

POV: Uniting against Executive Order on the Clean Power Plan

April 5, 2017

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

Climate Change

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

March 21, 2017

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

Classes

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.

University News

Going Green Earns Plaudits for BU

February 13, 2017

Anthony Janetos giving presentation

Sustainability

Climate Task Force Meets Tonight

January 31, 2017

Boston University School of Law tower

Earth

School of Law Project Earns Gold LEED Certification

January 26, 2017

Rex Tillerson

Climate Change

Taking Stock of the New President’s Foreign Policy Proposals

January 20, 2017

Taking Stock of the New President’s Foreign Policy Proposals