MIT hosts debate on pros and cons of fossil-fuel divestment
Participants discuss a proposed elimination of oil, gas, and coal companies from endowment portfolio.
Environmental Solutions Initiative awards seed grants to advance collaborative progress on environmental challenges
Grants of up to $200,000 will fund environmental partnerships over the next two years.
To divest, or not to divest?
Debate to explore nuanced arguments for and against divestment from fossil fuels.
Communicating climate change: Focus on solutions
MIT discussion highlights causes for optimism and the importance of emphasizing positive steps.
Better traffic signals can cut greenhouse gas emissions
Analysis shows that smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic.
How to talk about climate change
Event to address communication challenges — and opportunities for MIT to help overcome them.
Closing the arctic data gap
Ice-tethered devices are helping researchers collect more data on the Arctic Ocean.
How can MIT be a game-changer on climate?
MIT Climate Change Conversation gets underway with brainstorming session on how to catalyze change.
MIT Climate CoLab seeks high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change
Twenty-two contests now open to the global public.
First-light images from NASA’s soil moisture satellite revealed
Professor of civil and environmental engineering Dara Entekhabi, science team leader of NASA's SMAP satellite, marvels at the project's first snapshot of Earth.
Mapping MIT’s path forward on climate change
Students, faculty, staff to join MIT Climate Change Conversation in open, interactive event.
New detector sniffs out origins of methane
Instrument identifies methane’s origins in mines, deep-sea vents, and cows.
MIT’s sustainability community gets to work
Inaugural event brings together over 100 campus leaders to plan for greater efficiency, reduced waste.
“There’s no more important issue than energy”
Speakers at 10th annual MIT Energy Conference see progress, but great need for more research.
Solving carbon mysteries of the deep ocean
New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.