Sustainability & Environment

A panel of experts join the Harvard Chan Studio to discuss the link between air pollution exposure and increased risk for cognitive decline and neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and provide recommendations on policy changes for cleaner air.

PhD candidate Heidi Pickard studies the impact of precursors to PFAS—the “forever” chemicals that contaminate our water and food—which many industries have shifted toward to skirt regulations.

Renee Salas MPH ’16 is one of a growing number of physicians providing key evidence to support youth-led legal movements that center on the fundamental right to a healthy climate.

Research fellow Faiz Haque and PhD student Evan Routhier investigate how methylmercury enters the food web in the Amazon basin, where illegal gold mining has increased along the river.

Harvard Law School instructor Aminta Ossom JD ’09 and law student Taryn Shanes joined a UN forum to call for government intervention to mitigate water crises in vulnerable communities.

A short video from Harvard Law School's Environmental & Energy Law Program explains how new federal rules can work with emerging detection technologies to more effectively reduce methane emissions.

Harvard researchers have developed a new lithium metal battery that recharges in mere minutes and lasts much longer than existing electric vehicle batteries. A step closer to commercialization, the technology could revolutionize EVs by significantly increasing their range while dramatically reducing charging times.

At the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum, Clinton Foundation co-chair Chelsea Clinton led a panel of experts in a discussion about climate change and the role educators can have in improving the lives of children living amid the impacts of a warming planet.

Harvard Innovation Labs has selected 30 ventures that will join the Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, an incubation program for high-potential startups working to address climate change.

Harvard’s Center for International Development, in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, announced the recipients of the 2023 Global Empowerment Meeting Incubation Fund, advancing innovative climate change research for developing economies on the frontlines of the crisis.