Q&A: Bettina Stoetzer on envisioning a livable future
MIT anthropologist discusses her new book on ruderal ecologies, her environmental justice class — and how societies can expand their "imagination for how to live otherwise."
MIT anthropologist discusses her new book on ruderal ecologies, her environmental justice class — and how societies can expand their "imagination for how to live otherwise."
New findings may help researchers hone predictions for where phytoplankton will migrate with climate change.
Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the young as a herd, scientists say.
Merging species conservation and architectural design, graduate student James Brice is studying the sustainable development of public spaces.
Project supported by the Simons Foundation aims to reinvigorate environmental science by leaning on Parsons Laboratory's past as a leader in the space.
Committing to aggressive conservation efforts could rebuild ocean habitats and species populations in a few decades.
Study finds microbes can alter an environment dramatically before dying out.
The Summons Lab compares lipids from Antarctic microbial communities to century-old samples.
MIT researchers demonstrate how often-ignored microbial interactions have a significant impact on the biodegradation of complex materials.
Graduate student Maya Stokes, a geomorphology expert and ultimate frisbee coach, shows her passion for teaching in the field and on the field.
Professor Otto Cordero and colleagues ask: Can microbiome engineering make the Galapagos marine iguana more resilient to climate change?
Study finds that competition between bacterial species can be upended when conditions deteriorate.
Simons Foundation-backed CBIOMES brings together researchers in oceanography, statistics, data science, ecology, biogeochemistry, and remote sensing.
Interactions among microorganisms account for nitrite accumulation just below the sunlit zone, with implications for oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering awards cross-disciplinary seed funds.