How trash could fuel cleaner takeoffs
Turning city waste into jet fuel could trim aviation’s footprint. Unlike other biofuels, it does not use cropland.
Tue, Nov 18, 2025
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New York Times features extreme heat research led by the Salata Institute
"Since 2024, researchers at Harvard have been following the lives of nearly 300 informal women workers, mainly in Ahmedabad. The women agreed to wear Fitbits for the duration of the study, being conducted with SEWA, and have heat sensors installed in their homes. The Fitbits, along with smartphones given to the participants, track heart rates, sleep patterns and other data."
Tue, Nov 18, 2025
Harvard-MIT research shapes COP30 initiative on carbon market integration
Brazil, the EU, and China, among others, have committed to establish an Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets to discuss carbon pricing and trade rules – a framework informed by the Global Climate Policy Project at Harvard and MIT.
Fri, Nov 7, 2025
Research Brief: Satellite quantification of methane emissions from South American countries
The Methane Initiative has released a new research brief, summarizing research on satellite-based detection and quantification of methane emissions in South America.
Wed, Nov 5, 2025
Climate migration and data centers: Salata Institute funds five new research projects
Today the Salata Institute announced a seventh round of seed grant awards for work on understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability. With this support, Harvard researchers will examine drivers of climate migration, the value of neighborhood trees, and the future of hyperscale data center construction in the United States.
Tue, Nov 4, 2025
When work ends, the heat doesn’t
Salata Institute researchers argue that heat protections can’t end at the worksite: Many low-wage workers across the Global South return to homes that stay dangerously hot overnight.
Tue, Nov 4, 2025
Faculty Associate Naomi Oreskes wins 2025 Volvo Environment Prize
Harvard historian of science honored for illuminating how consensus forms and unmasking disinformation in climate discourse.
Fri, Oct 31, 2025
Humidity turns urban heat into an all-night threat
Research led by HUCE fellow shows that moisture slows surface cooling after sunset, pushing coastal and urban areas into more hours of dangerous heat.
Fri, Oct 31, 2025
New global mobility data now available for Harvard research
The dataset has applications for public transport network design in developing megacities and other complex problems in sustainable urban mobility.
Thu, Oct 30, 2025
Residential Battery Storage—Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity
A new paper from HBS uses granular data from German customers to study why households invested in residential battery storage as early as 2015- despite some back of the envelope math showing that it was not profitable.
Fri, Oct 17, 2025
The futures of Africa’s cocoa industry
Insights and actions from the 2025 Harvard Cocoa Workshop
Thu, Oct 9, 2025
A policy playbook to meet sustainable aviation fuel targets
If policymakers aligned incentives so aviation is not competing with trucks for the same biofuels, the U.S. could meet interim SAF goals.
Mon, Oct 6, 2025