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#  Naomi Oreskes receives 2025 Volvo Environment Prize for her Pathbreaking Body of Work 

 





The History of Science Department extends its warmest congratulations to Naomi Oreskes on winning the Volvo Environment Prize for her work on the history of science, climate change, and scientific consensus.



 

October 31, 2025

 

 

 

   

New findings are always questioned. That's how science works. Through this process of questioning, we can discern good claims from bad ones, separating the wheat from the chaff, and figuring out what seems to be true about the world.

 

 [Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes Receives the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize](https://www.volvogroup.com/en/news-and-media/news/2025/oct/harvard-professor-naomi-oreskes-receives-the-2025-volvo-environment-prize.html) 

 



 

 

 

  [### Naomi Oreskes

 ](/people/naomi-oreskes) <oreskes@fas.harvard.edu> Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science

Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

ON LEAVE SPRING 2026

 

 

 Primary Areas of Research: Agnotology; the Political Economy of Scientific Knowledge; History and Philosophy of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science and Technology Studies (STS); the History of Climate Change Disinformation Secondary Areas of... 

 

 

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