Nominees Announced for the 2026 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Prestigious Book Awards

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

How did Benjamin Franklin’s stove save energy? What does it reveal about wood, trees, and attempts to control the climate?

Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.

A decisive majority of faculty who responded to The Crimson’s annual survey of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences support the University’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s federal fundin...

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

In a joint motion with 17 other universities, Yale argues that cutting federal funds to Harvard endangers the nation.

Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these vis...

Nine states have set goals to conserve 30 percent of their land by 2030. Maryland got there first.

Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge

The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit in a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a piece of flatpack furniture, t...

Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...

A statement from the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, approved April 2025.

An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

In latest book, Harvard historian examines how Benjamin Franklin’s invention sparked new thinking on weather, technology.

Maybe some odd drift in the smoke above the chimney gave it away. But otherwise, a historic laboratory in a private home at 131 Market Street, Philadelphia, was invisible from the outside. The buil…