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Sellers-Garcia Discusses Boston’s Climate Strategy

Nikita Osadchiy • April 2, 2025

With climate change increasingly acting as a wildcard, preparing for and mitigating its effects is becoming more challenging. But according to Oliver Sellers-Garcia, Boston’s first Green New Deal director and special advisor to Mayor Wu on climate action, Boston is evolving to meet the moment.

Fisher Examines Co-Dependency of Democracy and Expertise

Nikita Osadchiy and Reetu Agnihotri • November 13, 2024

Expertise plays an essential role in sustaining democracy, according to Liz Fisher, professor of environmental law at Oxford University’s Corpus Christi College.

You Are Not in the Darkest Timeline

Tommy Roche • November 3, 2024

It’s hard not to feel cynical in 2024, as digital alerts about climate change and wars and migrants and mental illness all pump into our brains like water against an unstable dam. Amid this doom and gloom, we ought to acknowledge we do not live in the “the Darkest Timeline,” as joked about by the cult classic NBC sitcom Community.

Thiede Discusses Impacts of Climate Change on Health

Kate Cugno • March 14, 2024

Recent research has demonstrated that the global impacts of climate change on human health stem from pressing systemic issues, according to Brian Thiede, associate professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Demography at Pennsylvania State University.

Considering a More Positive Outlook on Climate Change

Peter Coquillette • December 4, 2023

While I agree with the intentions of the environmental movement, I think our generation's fear of climate change is overly pessimistic and lacks positive foresight.

Kerry Discusses Solutions to Climate Change-Related Health Issues

Ava Sjursen • November 4, 2023

Vanessa Kerry delivered a lecture on the solutions to climate change–related health issues on Wednesday at the Connell School of Nursing.

BC to Attend United Nations Climate Conference for Second Consecutive Year

Natalie Arndt and Will Martino • October 30, 2022

A select group of Boston College students and faculty members will travel to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt this November for COP27. This is the second time the University will attend the annual United Nations summit on climate change.

‘It Is Not Too Late to Change Course’: NYT International Climate Correspondent Urges Climate Action

Henry Blanchette and Lucy Freeman • October 23, 2022

The Russian war in Ukraine is pivotal to the future of combating climate change, according to The New York Times’ International Climate Correspondent Somini Sengupta.

How Dad Rock (and You) Can Save the Environment

Alli Hargrove • October 17, 2022

We are finding ourselves at the crux of a sociopolitical and ecological tipping point, where we need to pressure the government to take definitive action against climate change. Although we don’t quite have groups of hippies acting as our guides, that does not mean we should throw in the towel because we think the government won’t listen or that we are too young or inexperienced to incite change.