Designing climate-friendly concrete, from the nanoscale up
New understanding of concrete’s properties could increase lifetime of the building material, decrease emissions.
Regulating particulate pollution: Novel analysis yields new insights
MIT researchers demonstrate a new approach to designing location-specific emissions-control measures.
Scientists observe first signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer
September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000.
Air quality sensors track pollution
Research from MIT's Tata Center for Technology and Design is helping to quantify emissions in the world’s most polluted cities.
New Access MIT program offers free public transit to MIT employees
Plan gives commuters flexibility to choose, day-to-day, how they get to campus.
Making cities smarter
MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.
Target coal or carbon?
Researchers are analyzing coal and energy caps as carbon policy instruments for China.
Carbon pricing under binding political constraints
Grad student Jesse Jenkins and professor Valerie Karplus discuss challenges of emissions pricing in a new paper.
MIT joins Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
Led by World Bank and IMF, coalition seeks to price emissions to tackle climate change.
The geography of carbon pricing
Study looks at why some states could be impacted more than others if a price is put on carbon.
SustainabilityConnect 2016 brings MIT together around big ideas for campus and the globe
Second annual conference looks at MIT’s progress toward sustainability goals, and what remains to be done.
3 Questions: Amit Kumar and Gregory Stephanopoulos on turning waste gases into biofuels
Research conducted by Kumar, along with a team led by Professor Greg Stephanopoulos, looks to the future of emissions reduction and recycling.
MIT outlines progress on its five-year climate action plan
Progress report underscores strong collaboration across campus to address climate change.
How to make cities more energy efficient
Retrofitting a small portion of buildings would have big impact on cities’ carbon emissions.