Leventhal City Prize seeks to spark transformative urban design and planning approaches
New prize honors legendary developer and philanthropist Norman B. Leventhal.
Climate change makes summer weather stormier yet more stagnant
Study finds rising temperatures feed more energy to thunderstorms, less to general circulation.
J-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
Two new J-WAFS Solutions commercialization grants will support novel technologies that aim to improve the economics and resiliency of farming.
Local rocks can yield more crops
J-WAFS-funded MIT research team shows a new method of fertilizer production can better suit the needs of farms in Africa and around the globe.
From the Marines to MIT
Brent Minchew has flown presidents and foreign dignitaries on Marine One. Today he studies how ice sheets evolve and respond to changing climate.
Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.
Study evaluates China’s progress in establishing accounting measures to reinforce its Paris pledge
Firms learn from experience in the measurement, reporting, and verification of carbon emissions under China’s emissions trading systems.
3Q: Judah Cohen on improving seasonal weather forecasting
Machine learning could help improve the accuracy of long-term forecasts, MIT climatologist argues.
MIT adds computational Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences to its PhD offerings
New EAPS thesis field is the most recent to join the computational science and engineering doctoral program within the Center for Computational Engineering.
Exploring New England's coastal ecosystems in the dead of winter
Independent Activities Period class explores the role coastal ecosystems play in protecting the environment and how climate change has affected them.
Oil and water: Studying pressing environmental dilemmas in the Middle East
Visiting Assistant Professor Maryam Rashed Alshehhi models a region with freshwater shortages, oil spills, and frequent dust storms.
Modeling climate risk where it hits home
A new MIT-led study projects a dramatic increase in annual high-heat days in the U.S. Northeast by the century’s end.
New threat to ozone recovery
Study finds chloroform emissions, on the rise in East Asia, could delay ozone recovery by up to eight years.
Surviving one of Earth’s most extreme environments
New research finds a unique component of cell membranes in an archaea species conveys protection against acidic surroundings.
“Climate change will not wait for us”
At UN Climate Change Conference, MIT researchers share knowledge and tools to help nations meet Paris Agreement targets.