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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

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Boston area college students start the initiative #PutAPriceOnIt to educate Boston community on the effects of carbon pollution. PHOTO BY JACKIE O'BRIEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston students come together to fight climate change

Sabrina Schnur April 12, 2017

Several Boston student environmental organizations have unified under the #PutAPriceOnIt campaign in an effort to lobby against carbon pollution. The coalition includes Tufts Climate Action, Emerson...

Protesters approach the Morton County Sheriff’s Department on Nov. 4 to fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. PHOTO COURTESY SCOTTY SCHENK/ THE HUNTINGTON NEWS

Northeastern students participate in DAPL protests at Standing Rock

Alyssa Meyers November 30, 2016

Instead of going home for Thanksgiving, a group of 13 Northeastern University students traveled to North Dakota to participate in the protests at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, according to Austin...

Signs made by members of Divest BU line the stairs up to the BU Castle during a rally in September. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston area students push schools to divest from fossil fuels

Breanne Kovatch October 13, 2016

The Massachusetts Appeals Court last week dismissed the Harvard Climate Justice Coalition’s lawsuit against the Harvard Corporation’s investment in fossil fuels, according to Divest Harvard officials....

Sean Keith, a member of DivestNU, hammers in the last pin needed to hang a sign on the front wall of Centennial Common at Northeastern University. PHOTO BY NATALIE CARROLL/ DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Northeastern students occupy university common in protest of fossil fuels

Ellie French October 4, 2016

A Northeastern University student group organized a protest on Northeastern’s Centennial Common to protest the university’s continued investment in the fossil fuel industry. The protest began Monday...

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