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Climate Change

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Things-to-do

Earth Day at BU: Green Thumbs Welcome, Enthusiasm Encouraged

April 3, 2025

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Environment

How and Why the LA Wildfires Grew So Fast—and Lessons for the Future

January 16, 2025

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LA WILDFIRES

LA Wildfires Touch Lives of BU Students, Staff, Instructors, Alums

January 14, 2025

Photo: Emma Daily (GRS’28) spoke at a side event at the COP 29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November. Photo by Jianwei Li

Science & Technology

BU Students Find Hope at COP29 UN Climate Summit

December 5, 2024

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Earth

Vermont Will Charge Big Oil for Past Climate Change. Should Massachusetts Follow?

July 12, 2024

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Things-to-do

BU’s Earth Day Celebrations

April 5, 2024

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Awards

Innovate@BU Awarded $15,000 to Students Who Came Up with Ways to Help Boston Face Climate Change

March 12, 2024

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Alumni

White House Welcomes Young BU Alum for Climate Change Talk

November 27, 2023

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QUESTROM

BU Dual Master’s Program Aims to Produce Graduates Versed in Environmental Science—and the Economics of Climate Change

September 11, 2023

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Innovation

Questrom Student Creates Stuffed Animals and Books to Teach Kids about Sustainability

September 8, 2023

Photo: Youth plaintiffs in the climate change lawsuit, Held vs. Montana, arrive at the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse, on June 20, 2023, in Helena, Montana. A group of young people wearing business casual wear smile and cheer as they walk towards a courtroom building.

Student Voices

POV: Montana Youths Sued State over Climate Change—and Won a Landmark Decision for All Young People

August 24, 2023

Photo: The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street. A large pyramid-shaped building and surrounding palm trees and land are shown engulfed in flames. Large flames are seen in the background as the sky looms red and black.

Maui Wildfires

Maui Native Helps Others amid Devastating Wildfires

August 11, 2023

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Climate Change

COM Student’s UROP Climate Project Lands Her a Trip to Washington

August 2, 2023

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Listen Now

Today I Learned: Boston’s topography was shaped by glaciers more than 20,000 years ago

May 30, 2023

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Sustainability

Sustainability Seed Grants Will Fund Ideas Ranging from Textbook Lending to Eliminating Dental Supply Waste

April 24, 2023

Photo:Joshita Manohar (CAS’240, left, and Esther Gilbert (CAS’22) look through their poster options at the Happy Cactus gifts tents during BU’s annual Earth Day Festival not he GSU Plaza. A young South Asian woman wearing a tan jacket and a young Asian woman wearing a black jacket smile as they look through posters. Next to them, a large variety of green plants is displayed.

Earth Day Preview

How BU Honors Earth Day, Every Day

April 6, 2023

Photo: Jay Eddy (CGS’23) (left), the writer, composer and performer of Alligator-A-Phobia in 3D!, clowning around with director Shamus (CFA’23) on set. A woman with red hair and wearing a purple jump suit is shown mid-air as she jumps with a large, blow-up alligator in her arms. To he right, a man with dark brown curly hair and wearing a teal shirt and jeans peaks out from behind a set piece window. He has puppet alligators on his hands as looks to the woman to his left.

Theatre

Alligator-a-Phobia in 3-D! at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Chomps on Our Anxieties

April 6, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

What Did You Miss Most in the Weird Winter? Snow Days, Warm Foods, Complaining, Fires, Winter Runs, and More

March 17, 2023

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College of Communication

That “News Story” on Climate Change You’re Reading Might Be a Greenwashing Ad Instead

February 6, 2023

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Public policy

US Mayors Address the Climate Crisis in New Report from BU’s Initiative on Cities

January 18, 2023

US Mayors Address the Climate Crisis in New Report from BU’s Initiative on Cities