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About the Project How can we build battery supply chains that are more affordable, resilient, and low-carbon? The Harvard-China Project seeks a Harvard undergraduate research assistant to help investigate how mineral sourcing, production technologies, and...

The Harvard-China Project is now accepting applications for Visiting Researchers and Postdoctoral Fellows. Visiting researchers range from Ph.D. students (called “fellows” at Harvard), to junior and tenured faculty members on leave from a scholarly post...

CARBON LEAKAGE – when emissions reductions in one country are offset by increased emissions elsewhere – is a key challenge to unilateral efforts to reduce carbon emissions. New research published in Environmental Research Letters explains how this can...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...