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20 Societal Problems, 20 Solutions

June 26, 2026

This article originally appeared on the Harvard Gazette website. View an excerpt below or read the full article here . Curbing the spread of malaria, catching breast cancer before it becomes deadly, and creating an immersive archive on the Giza pyramids...

Michael McElroy, pioneering atmospheric scientist, dies at 86

January 29, 2026

Professor Michael B. McElroy was a towering intellectual whose pioneering research shaped how we understand the atmospheric chemistry of more than half the planets in our solar system, including Earth. His groundbreaking work on human-induced...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Net-Zero Strategy

March 13, 2026

What will it take to reinvent heavy industry for a net-zero future? According to Ricky Sakai, Senior Vice President of Investment and Business Development at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHI), the answer lies in bold engineering, global...

Kellie Nault

The Next Frontier in Clean Flight?: Jet Fuel from City Waste

November 05, 2025

AVIATION CURRENTLY CONTRIBUTES ABOUT 2.5% OF GLOBAL CARBON EMISSIONS, and with air travel demand expected to double by 2040, cutting those emissions has become a pressing priority. One promising path forward is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a low...

Kellie Nault

A Policy Playbook to Meet Sustainable Aviation Fuel Targets

October 10, 2025

AVIATION IS ONE OF THE HARDEST PARTS of the economy to decarbonize. New planes that run on hydrogen or batteries are being tested, but technical hurdles and slow fleet turnover mean these solutions are years away. The only near-term option is to replace a...

Watch Now: India's Path to a Sustainable Future

October 01, 2025

Watch the Video: Key Highlights: India, the world’s most populous country, is a major source of CO₂ and methane emissions, making its energy transition central to addressing global climate change. The book, Sun, Wind, and Biomass: India's Path to a...

Kellie Nault

Oliver Lontay '27 on Data Center Development in China

September 24, 2025

Harvard-China Project: Oliver, can you share the name of your project, and what you researched while in China? Oliver Lontay: This summer I worked with the Harvard China Project at Nanjing University on a project about the growth of China’s data center...

Kellie Nault

India’s Path to a Carbon-Free Future: A Conversation with Professor Michael B. McElroy

September 05, 2025

How can India turn waste and clean energy into fuel to fight air pollution? The answer may lie in biomass, says Michael B. McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Harvard...

Sara Dahiya '25 on Integrating Renewable Energy into Maritime Transportation

August 27, 2025

Harvard-China Project: Sara, welcome back from China! Can you share the name of your project, and what you researched while in Beijing? Sara Dahiya: My project, " Optimzing Shipping Routes," was focused on optimizing marine shipping routes through the...

Kellie Nault

China’s EV Ultrafast Charging Stations: Challenges, Solutions, and Costs

August 13, 2025

Newswise — A new study published in Engineering delves into the future of ultrafast charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in China, exploring charging patterns, grid impacts, solutions, and upgrade costs. As the global EV market continues to...

Unlocking clean hydrogen mobility: A strategic guide

May 05, 2025

The global transition to a low-carbon economy requires the large-scale deployment of clean energy technologies, fundamentally reshaping value chains and stakeholder dynamics. Among these technologies, hydrogen—long integral to the energy and chemical...

Nicola De Blasio

The Green Star State

February 24, 2025

By Jonathan Shaw, Harvard Magazine THE COST OF PRODUCING renewable energy from both wind and sun continues to fall, prompting a boom in sustainable electricity production. But this has also led to an auspicious problem: what to do with the excess energy...