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photo of a barren snow-covered forest

12.11.2018

CAS Prof, Fellow Researchers: Warmer Winters Are Harming Northeast Forests

Video: 09.18.2018

University Announces Massive Wind Power Purchase

06.11.2018

Fixing Climate Change Is Good Business, Whatever President Trump Says

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

04.24.2018

SPH Hosts Climate Change Symposium

03.26.2018

Lobsters on the Line

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

12.20.2017

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., is a more than 3,700-acre ecological research area where scientists have been carrying out experiments since 1907. Photo by Mark Friedl and Minkyu Moon

12.14.2017

CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change

Diane Thompson extracting a core from a live Porites coral colony at Kiritimati in 2012. Photo by Elizabeth Wiggins

12.11.2017

Winds of Change

12.08.2017

BU Trustees Approve Aggressive Climate Action Plan

Boston University skyline

12.05.2017

POV: How BOLD Is BU?

ACES CO2 map visualizing carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in Rhode Island

12.04.2017

CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Researcher Catherine West holds a butter clam shell on a beach in Dutch Harbor, Unalaska

11.27.2017

Clamshells and Climate Change

Boston skyline colored green representing Boston's effort to be a green city and cut carbon emissions 100% by 2050

10.19.2017

Can Boston Be a Green City by 2050?

Massive crack in Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica

07.17.2017

What Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg Could Mean for the Future

Ecologists Tempest McCabe and Michael Dietze develop computational tools to study the complex interactions between plants, animals, and climate, such as how climate change could effect tick-borne disease

07.06.2017

Fighting Tick-Borne Disease with Computer Science

Snowpack acts as a blanket, protecting tree roots from frigid air. Warmer winters mean less snow, leading to damaged roots. Sugar maples are especially susceptible to freezing because their roots grow close to the soil’s surface.

06.29.2017

Climate Change and an “Overlooked” Nutrient: Silica

Hot sun burns behind electricity power lines

06.16.2017

The High Cost of Summer Energy Price Spikes

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

06.07.2017

The Fallout from Trump’s Paris Accord Withdrawal

05.04.2017

Putting Cities on the Climate Map

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

03.21.2017

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation