climate change

‘The longer you’re planning to be here, the more you have a stake’

During a wide-ranging conversation at Northeastern’s Boston campus Wednesday, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is exploring a run for the presidency,…

by Molly Callahan April 3, 2019

How to dissect a squid, squish seaweed, and find your friends like whales do

On Thursday, students gathered at Northeastern’s Boston campus for the High School Marine Science Symposium.

by Laura Castañón March 8, 2019

Professor says the Green New Deal’s focus on renewable energy could fight global warming, create healthier communities

The Green New Deal and other initiatives that move the world away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy could also reduce social injustices across…

by Molly Callahan February 22, 2019

Ten things to do on Northeastern’s Boston campus for National Engineers Week

Learn how industrial engineers are fighting human trafficking. Examine robots that fly, drive, and swim. Tour labs in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex.

by David Harbeck February 15, 2019

The US may be giving up on the Paris accord on climate change, but these students aren’t

At a climate summit in Poland in December, a group of Northeastern students had an opportunity to observe negotiations on the rules to govern the…

by Khalida Sarwari January 15, 2019

Here’s one way to make data tangible and exciting

When most of us hear “data,” we think of facts and figures confined to charts and reports. For Northeastern professor Dietmar Offenhuber, it’s not so…

by Khalida Sarwari December 18, 2018

Sometimes you have to jump out of a bus to make it to the Forbes “30 Under 30” party

Among the five Northeastern graduates and faculty members recognized by Forbes as notable entrepreneurs were Kyle Kornack and David Cooch, who co-founded a nonprofit that…

by Ian Thomsen December 6, 2018

A bright side to those dire climate change reports?

A dire new climate report compiled by 13 U.S. federal agencies states that “the impacts of climate change are intensifying across the country.” Jennie Stephens,…

by Molly Callahan November 28, 2018

Climate change has created a storm of uncertainty. These researchers are making sense of it.

Northeastern professor Auroop Ganguly and his research partners explain how to harness the power of existing science and technology to interpret climate data, make more…

by Aria Bracci November 9, 2018

‘They made a big mistake when they drove me out of Liberia’

A year and a half after the Liberian government and powerful palm oil companies forcefully drove Alfred Brownell out of the country for fighting to…

by Molly Callahan October 25, 2018