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