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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Watch Duty app. Many Boston University students and faculty members have been affected by the Palisades and Eaton wildfires. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU students, faculty reflect on devastating Los Angeles wildfires

Samantha Genzer January 22, 2025
Boston University students and staff recount the devastation of the LA wildfires.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

The ‘Lower Energy Costs’ or ‘Polluters Over People’ Act? | Hard Right Turn

Nathan Metcalf March 31, 2023
From wildfires scorching everything west of the Rocky Mountains to rapidly rising sea levels threatening to engulf the eastern seaboard — it’s become increasingly clear to climate scientists, policymakers and observant people alike that climate change has begun affecting everyone, everywhere, in the here and now.
Max Ferrandino

Politics Philosophized: Happiness in 2020

Max Ferrandino September 23, 2020
The little victories within your own life are what make the years count. Whether it's mastering the art of making bread or finishing an important book, it's the small victories that will make 2020 livable.
The Massachusetts Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team returned to Beverly on Sunday after being deployed to assess wildfire damage and locate survivors in Oregon. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Mass. firefighters return from Oregon deployment

Joy Pereira September 22, 2020
Twenty-five Massachusetts members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Urban Search and Rescue team returned home Sunday after they were deployed to help with Oregon’s wildfires. Personnel and resources from 39 states and several Canadian provinces were sent to help the state.
Boston’s Museum of Science hosted the Wicked High Tides Forum on the effects of climate change, particularly rising tides, Tuesday. MIRIAM FAUZIA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Interactive forum teaches communities to fight climate change with resilience

Miriam Fauzia March 4, 2020
At the Wicked High Tides Forum hosted by the Museum of Science Tuesday, attendees had the opportunity to learn about a solution for climate change — climate resilience — and its potential in averting it.
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