Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
Faculty leaders describe their efforts to develop potentially game-changing tools.
Faculty leaders describe their efforts to develop potentially game-changing tools.
Postdoc Francesco Benedetti strives to make a positive impact — from helping to form supportive student groups to tackling industrial energy waste.
A new cleaning method could remove dust on solar installations in water-limited regions, improving overall efficiency.
A new approach enables architects to use discarded tree forks as load-bearing joints in their structures.
The computer-vision technique behind these maps could help avoid contrail production, reducing aviation’s climate impact.
Faculty leaders discuss the opportunities and obstacles in developing, scaling, and implementing their work rapidly.
Growing demand for an energy transition could move the needle, but not far enough.
Thirty-six million people in the U.S. use an energy system developed by a handful of activists in the 1990s. An MIT scholar examines this unusual story.
A subset of the finalists will be announced as multiyear flagship projects this spring.
Through MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, students explore research topics relevant to their own interests, the MCSC, and member companies.
Loci Controls, founded by two MIT alumni, helps landfill operators capture more of the potent greenhouse gas.
New MITEI consortium focuses on speeding the energy transition, engaging with industrial leaders to deploy clean energy advances at scale.
New research suggests ways to optimize US climate policy design for a just energy transition.
Study reveals why some attempts to convert the greenhouse gas into fuel have failed, and offers possible solutions.
Arlene Fiore uses satellite data paired with ground observations to refine our understanding of ozone smog and interactions with meteorology and climate.