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Climate Change in media

Five books and movies to read and watch about the climate crisis this winter

Lynn Chu February 1, 2022
With every change in season comes a new wave of climate anxiety.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Minority Report: Let them eat meat

Lincoln Son Currie April 22, 2021
Meat destroys our planet, but meat “makes life worth living.”
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

Skate on the Paradigm: The CO2-shaped elephant in the room

Andre Salkin October 22, 2020
Climate change’s inevitable impacts on Earth will have catastrophic socio-political repercussions, which will threaten the very fabric of organized human civilization.
Breathe Well Fitness is an online business, created by two Boston University sophomores, that sells eco-friendly at-home workout equipment. COURTESY OF AUBREY VITALE

BU student duo creates eco-friendly fitness company amid pandemic

Belle He September 22, 2020
When gyms across the nation closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, exercise gurus suddenly found their regular fitness routines disrupted. But two BU sophomores decided to take advantage of new indoor workout regimes and become entrepreneurs.
Professor Pontus Olofsson was recently awarded two research grants from the NASA Carbon Monitoring System to support a three-year project analyzing forest degradation across the tropics. COURTESY OF PONTUS OLOFSSON

NASA awards two research grants to BU professor

Alex LaSalvia September 12, 2019
Boston University professor of earth and environment Pontus Olofsson was awarded two grants from NASA on Friday to research forest degradation using satellite data.
In a recent study, The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has found that since the start of human civilization, the number of trees has decreased 46 percent. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN SONG/DFP STAFF

Tree density study draws attention to limitations of human knowledge, concern

Sonia Rao September 8, 2015

An international study, published Wednesday and led by postdoctoral fellow Thomas Crowther at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, brought intriguing news for tree huggers and regular...

Study reveals decline in food quality due to rising carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere

Daily Free Press Admin April 14, 2014

As warnings about climate change are becoming increasingly dire, scientists now believe that the quality of our food is at risk due to the spread of greenhouse gases. Scientists at the University of California-Davis,...

RUTH: A virtual perspective

Daily Free Press Admin November 18, 2013

Last year, I started playing a game called Minecraft in which the sole objective of the game is to break blocks and build structures out of said blocks. I always found myself resorting to Minecraft whenever...

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