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Earth feels impact of middle class

Fuel sourced from living matter could greatly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Companies are working on solutions that dont undermine biodiversity in the process.

Humans have given it a low-key name: geoengineering. But it's nothing less than changing the Earth — the air, the clouds, the oceans — so that we can hold off on global warming's most devastating effects until we cut our carbon pollution.

Tinkering with skies, clouds and oceans is risky, but maybe less risky than global warming

In 2007 we profiled Cormac McCarthy, the most reclusive novelist in America.

As the sky turned gloomy,

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late James Joseph McCarthy was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

In a Harvard talk following a preview of his new documentary, the director debates nuclear energy's merits as a climate change solution.

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability invite you for a pre-release film screening of Nuclear Now, followed by a discussion featuring Oliver Stone, Director and Co-Writer; Joshua S. Goldstein, Co-Writer; and Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost, MIT. The panel will be moderated by Dan Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, with opening remarks by Steven Pinker, Johnsto...

It needs to face up to the fact