Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water
NREL-MIT study shows an 80 percent renewable energy standard cuts water use in half.
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Report: China’s actions are crucial on climate change
Research shows China’s impact on climate change, as well as its potential to shape the path forward.
Communicating the climate challenge
New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at Earth Day colloquium.
Facing the facts about our changing climate
MIT researchers join Boston Globe panel in weighing climate risks and resolutions.
Powering the Chinese dragon
China Light and Power’s Peter Littlewood talks with MIT researchers and students about the country’s strengths and the United States’s opportunity to embrace them.
Our complex food future and how to respond
Today’s global challenges will significantly affect how we grow our food. But these challenges are so complex and intertwined that response measures require collaboration and a broad, integrated lens.
China’s pollution puts a dent in its economy
Despite improvements in air quality, the economic impact of air pollution has increased dramatically, new MIT study shows.
MIT researcher: U.S. taking leadership on mercury in the environment
Noelle Eckley Selin joins the EPA's regional administrator, Curt Spalding, and other public health experts to speak about the EPA's recent Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
Where the wind blows
How far can wind power go toward reducing global carbon emissions from electricity production?
What can make a dent?
Given the enormous scale of worldwide energy use, there are limited options for achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
A new way to model urban air pollution
MIT researchers improve upon methods to model atmospheric aerosols.
The impact of climate policy on U.S. aviation
Researchers find that a federal climate policy would lower total U.S. emissions, but without large reductions in the aviation sector.
Moving climate change regulation forward
U.S. chief climate negotiator, MIT panel examine the science and policy of global warming.