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BU Academy Sees Admissions Boom Strolling down Comm Ave: Isaac Rajagopal (BUA’23) (from left), Chris Kolovos, BU Academy head of school, and Jasper Milstein (BUA’24). Photo by Tom Kates for BUA University News Special atmosphere and BU COVID precautions credited for increase June 10, 2021 Twitter Facebook Boston University Academy, the independent coed private high school operated by BU, will enroll its largest ever ninth grade class this fall. Applications increased by a third, driven by the academy’s ability to take advantage of the University’s COVID testing pro...

"When temperatures do odd things...": How this map reveals a warning for the climate By Jeff Berardelli NOAA releases new climate normals No matter how you display it, for decades climate data has conveyed the clear and consistent trend of a rapidly warming Earth. But how a climate scientist chooses to visualize that data can really help to communicate vital clues about the climate system. Recently, Ed Hawkins, the professor who created the now famous Warming Stripes visualization (read more about that here), from the University of Reading in the U.K., tweeted out a cleve...

In The News 07 May 2021 Moldova is one of Europe’s most modest contributors to climate change. Its per capita emissions, while higher than many other Eastern European countries, are still almost half the world’s average. But the country is also one of the poorest on the continent, and it is disproportionately impacted by the impacts of climate change. An unprecedented drought in 2012 carried it from economic boom to a painful contraction. Poverty and the sustained effects of political turmoil is what is on most people’s minds. “The level of interest in climate here is usua...

Hubertus Grass/Pixabay The Arizona Corporation Commission and energy companies are maintaining a “business as usual” strategy in the pursuit of clean energy and energy reliability in Arizona, despite twin bills looking to strip the ACC’s power. House Bill 2248, sponsored by Rep. Gail Griffin (R-Sierra Vista), would bar the Arizona Corporation Commission’s from adopting or enforcing policy that regulates electrical generation resources acquired by public service corporations (PSCs) without specific legislative authority. The bill passed the House on a vote of 31-28,...

How daily work is changing on P.E.I. as wind and temperature patterns shift If you want to learn how climate change has already begun to affect daily life on P.E.I., talk to someone who works outside. Social Sharing