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Earth

Slash and burn deforestation in Colombia

Remote sensing

Satellite Images Map Deforestation

November 14, 2016

Jennifer Soukup (CAS’18) in her scuba gear in the water looking at a field guide

Marine Science

One Class, One Day: Scientific Diving

October 27, 2016

Workers on the job at Red’s Best, a Boston seafood wholesaler

In the City

BU Increases Its Target for Sustainable Food Sources

October 14, 2016

Professor Anthony Janetos gives a presentation at the BU ACSRI Forum on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

University News

Trustees Adopt Broad Climate Change Strategy

September 20, 2016

Eliandro Tavares (CGS’16, CAS’18) measures the diameter of a tree

Climate Change

Studying Climate Change One Tree at a Time

September 19, 2016

Author and Science Writer David Quammen

Communications

David Quammen to Speak at NEIDL Symposium Sunday

September 16, 2016

Matt Thacker holds a blow horn at the Divestment Rally at Marsh Plaza

Trustees

Students Rally for Fossil Fuel Divestment

September 15, 2016

Squirrel gnawing on a chicken bone

Forensic Science

Toothy Squirrels Could Confuse Crime Scenes

August 30, 2016

Robert Kaufman, professor of of earth and environment in Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, with rooftop solar panels at Boston University

Environment & Ecology

Solar Power Saves Everyone Money

July 25, 2016

Pheidole dentata minor worker ants

Biology

Ants Don’t Get Alzheimer’s

July 11, 2016

Richard Primack at Walden Pond

Earth & Environment

Tracing Water Levels at Walden Pond

June 28, 2016

Students find out how the bucolic surroundings of Mount Auburn Cemetery fit into our social history in a class taught by Charles Ian Stevenson (GRS’13,’19).

Academics

One Class, One Day: Reading Mount Auburn Cemetery

June 21, 2016

Earth

POV: Beyond the Clean Power Plan

May 10, 2016

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz

Sustainability

US Secretary of Energy Moniz to Receive Honorary Degree

May 9, 2016

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) discusses climate change to Pardee School faculty at Pardee School May 4, 2016. At right is Pardee Dean Dr. Adil Najam

Global

US Senator Addresses Politics of Climate Change

May 6, 2016

Sustainability@BU

Students

BU Celebrates Earth Day 2016

April 21, 2016

Professor Anthony Janetos gives a presentation at the BU ACSRI Forum on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Science & Technology

ACSRI Proposes Creation of Broad Climate Plan

April 20, 2016

John Brawley (GRS'92) and his farm hand Sean Sullivan of Kingston working Brawley's oyster farm in Duxbury, MA

Alumni

The Bayman

March 3, 2016

Fossil Fuels

Public Health

POV: Why BU Needs to Divest from Fossil Fuels

February 22, 2016

Nathan Phillips poses for a photo in front of the Earth House on Friday, January 15, 2016. It is a residential education program at 7 Buswell St., where accepted environmental studies students will live and study the house itself, among other things, as part of a two year program of seminars and "experiential projects." Photo By Jackie Ricciardi

Earth

Earth House Doubles as Environmental Classroom

January 22, 2016

Earth House Doubles as Environmental Classroom