Today the Salata Institute announced a sixth round of seed grant awards for work on understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability. Among other things, Harvard researchers will examine chocolate production in a changing climate, new materials to harvest moisture, and help Kazakhstan chart its green transition.

Funded by the Salata Institute, Harvard experts join forces to generate climate solutions.

NASA technology guides scientists as they track health of ‘Earth’s lungs’

Novel system works like a coffee filter to dry, cool air more efficiently

Harvard researchers sponsored by the Salata Institute are using environmental sensors and wearable devices to track the health impacts of extreme heat on women working in India's informal sector. Caroline Buckee, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains.

Extreme heat is the top weather-related killer in the United States. Harvard Medical School faculty are testing a new simulation exercise to help cities prepare for a changing climate.

This week, the Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea Cluster held a workshop entitled, "Resilient Coasts: Sustainable Frameworks for Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea." The Cluster is considering climate adaptation strategies to coastal erosion in Abidjan, Accra, and Lagos that would be technically feasible, that could be implemented, and that would garner political support. The strategies include coastal defense to protect high value stretches of the coast; livelihood protection in situ, examining how to make coastal communities floodable but functional; and livelihood protection ex situ, the option of voluntary non-temporary resettlement of vulnerable coastal populations, either with or without compensation. An analysis of past and future sea level rise across the Gulf of Guinea and probabilistic projections of sea level change to 2100 CE will inform the Cluster’s understanding of the social and economic risks of erosion and flooding on six different vulnerable communities in these cities.

As climate change makes extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and heat waves more frequent and intense, frontline health clinics around the country report that extreme weather is disrupting care delivery, and staff and providers say they are motivated to use resources that help improve clinic and patient preparedness.

Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Chair Peter Huybers describes how changes to seasonal rainfall patterns hurt people facing food shortages.

Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Co-Director of CrisisReady, speaks to the impacts of hurricanes on human health and displacement and what can be expected as the recovery progresses.

The Park Fire in California has become the 5th largest wildfire in the state's history. The path and trajectory of smoke from wildfires like this one can have serious and lasting impacts on human health. We asked Harvard wildfire expert Loretta Mickley to tell us more about how scientists predict where wildfire smoke is going to end up.

Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Co-Director of CrisisReady, speaks to the impacts of hurricanes on human health and displacement and what can be expected as the recovery progresses.