Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Inequality in outdoor occupational exposure to heat waves in India & Assessing the Scalability of US Recycling

Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Inequality in outdoor occupational exposure to heat waves in India

Location: Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Fan Dai, Director, California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School... Read more about Certainties out of the uncertain: subnational climate diplomacy between the U.S. and China

Location: Virtual

Please join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 12:30-2:00 PM ET for a virtual presentation by Harvard’s Julie Battilana. Julie Battilana is a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and social innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation + Change Initiative. Professor Battilana's research examines the politics of change in organizations and in society. She’s especially focused on organizations and individuals that initiate and implement changes that diverge from the taken-for-granted norm—that...

Read more about Future of the American City Cape Ann Conversations: Mobilizing Power for Climate Action

Location: Zoom

Sabine R. Huebner is a professor of ancient history at the University of Basel in Switzerland whose project at Harvard Radcliffe Institute aims to craft a groundbreaking monograph on third-century Roman Egypt, exploring the dynamic interplay of climatic shifts, political upheavals, and socioeconomic transformations during a pivotal era.... Read more about Climate, Environment, and the Transition to Late Antiquity: Roman Government’s Response to Climate Disasters and Agricultural Resilience in Roman Egypt

Location: Virtual & Rubenstein Building, David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Kyle Meng, Associate Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Management and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a former Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors. Meng will discuss recent developments in U.S. climate policy.... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar: Developments in U.S. Climate Policy

Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor), 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks.... Read more about Science Spotlights: Finding New Species

Location: Hunnewell Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

Smithsonian Trees of North America is a new, beautifully illustrated guide to more than 325 common trees on this continent. Join author John Kress for a book talk on this indispensable new guide, complete with hundreds of range maps illustrating where the trees can be found; thousands of photographs of the trees’ leaves, bark, flowers, and fruit; in-depth studies of the trees’ biology, ecology, and evolution; and fascinating discussions of the trees’ future in a world of rapid environmental change.... Read more about Smithsonian Trees of North America

Location: South Street Gate, Arnold Arboretum, Boston

Trees undergo and resist many different stressors throughout their lives: mechanical stress from twisting and bending, drought, insects, and even fire. These stressors and the tree’s response can be seen on a microscopic level, as the cells themselves change, compress, and elongate to react to and accommodate the stressor.... Read more about Research Spotlight: How Do Trees Respond to Stress?

Location: Milstein Conference Center, Harvard Law School, 1585 Mass Ave, Cambridge

Please join us for a conference and convening on the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The event will explore the Act’s successes and challenges over the past 50 years and its future directions.... Read more about ESA: The Next 50 Years

Location: CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

Join us for a Brown-Harvard Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics at Yale University, with an eyewitness account from Martha Chen, Mittal Institute Steering Committee member.... Read more about The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh – Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Mushfiq Mobarak

Location: Virtual and Kresge 202a, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

HACE kicks off its Climate and Health series with Climate and Mental Health, co-sponsored by Harvard Alumni for Mental Health (HAMH). This hybrid event will be followed by networking both online as well as in-person. Panelists will present on climate change, impacts on mental health, and how to manage eco-anxiety and protect mental health from climate threats.... Read more about Climate and Mental Health

Location: Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Dr. Haiyang Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project... Read more about Discrepancies between estimated and actual wind power generation in the U.S. and China

Location: Zoom

Jessica Gersony - The PLACE Lab: Centering community building, art and justice in the field of plant physiology... Read more about Harvard Forest Seminars: The PLACE Lab: Centering community building, art and justice in the field of plant physiology

Location: HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Climate engineering is increasingly being discussed as a potential, temporary means of alleviating some of the worst effects of climate change.  If society is going to pursue it someday, we need to have confidence that it will do what it is intended to do.  So how do we know?... Read more about Climate Engineering Uncertainty and Confidence: What do we really know?

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Energy Transitions in Mexico

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Energy Transitions in Mexico

Location: Bowie Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

In my new book project, “Contested Icescapes, Land, Politics, and Change on an Arctic Agricultural Frontier,” I explore how marginal Arctic land is being imagined as a new frontier for agriculture under climate change, and what the implications are for rural and Indigenous lands, livelihoods, and governance.... Read more about From Moose to Cattle? Exercising Indigenous Sovereignty in Climate Adaptation Projects

Location: Pierce Hall, 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Wildland fires are among the largest sources of atmospheric emissions in the U.S. and their relative contribution to air pollution is expected to grow as emissions from other sectors decrease. In the Southeastern U.S., prescribed fire is used extensively to reduce fuel loads and mitigate the risk of hazardous wildfire. However, the Southeast also includes one of the largest wildland-urban interfaces in the country with millions of residents living near fire‐prone areas.... Read more about Wildland fire smoke in the Southeastern United States: Impacted populations, land management concerns, and climate-driven changes

Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: COP29 Negotiations: What to Expect and Why It Matters