Faculty & Research


Seeing Methane from Space

How Harvard scientists hope to slow near-term climate change

by Nina Pasquini

The Rights of Nature

A Harvard course explores legal personhood for natural beings.

by Max J. Krupnick

Eating for the Holidays, the Planet, and Your Heart

“Sustainable eating,” and healthy recipes you can prepare this Thanksgiving.

by Olivia Farrar

Designing for “Changing Climates”

An exhibit on landscape architect Bas Smets

by Max J. Krupnick

How Planet Earth’s Trees Use Carbon

From the Amazon rainforest to shrubs planted around city streets, trees influence the earth’s temperature.

by Olivia Farrar

Of Coffee and Cryptogamic Botany

Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium at 100

by Jonathan Shaw

The Evolutionary Case for Exercise

The off-label prescription from our hunter-gatherer ancestors

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard’s Nobel Prize Incubator

The Harvard University Bio Labs, home to 10 Nobel laureates on floor three and two on floor four

by Richard Losick

How Physics Can Be Used to Manipulate a Coin Toss

How a coin toss can be uniquely rigged – and can demonstrate probability’s role in reducing uncertainty.

by Olivia Farrar

Home Unaffordable Home

America’s housing problem—and what to do about it

by Jonathan Shaw

When Technology and Society Clash

Latanya Sweeney confronts our all-consuming “technocracy.”

by Lydialyle Gibson