Study: Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S.
New MIT study finds vehicle emissions are the biggest contributor to these premature deaths.
MIT team flies high to measure mercury emissions
Assistant Professor Noelle Selin and students participate in project to better understand air pollution’s climate and health impacts
Green computing is super
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's new supercomputing facility reduces energy impacts
MIT and NSTAR celebrate energy efficiency success, extend ‘Efficiency Forward’ through 2015
Since first agreement in 2010, MIT has reduced electricity use on campus by 15 percent.
Making alternative fuels cheaper
Chemical engineers’ new synthesis could make biofuel more appealing for mass production.
Holding the salt
MIT graduate student David Cohen-Tanugi works to improve water filtration, desalination.
Putting a price on adaptation
Researchers use new method to calculate the impacts and adaptation costs of climate change
Footwear’s (carbon) footprint
Study finds the bulk of shoes’ carbon footprint comes from manufacturing processes.
Funding clean-energy solutions
MIT’s Clean Energy Prize awards more than $300,000 to support green startups and technologies.
MIT signs Compact for Sustainable Future with City of Cambridge and Harvard
Akamai to join universities and city in new agreement; others encouraged to follow suit.
The case for optimism about a renewable energy future
Researcher Eric Martinot presents findings of two-year project at campus event
Mission Southwest: Mines, water and rocks
Undergrads in Terrascope Mission 2016 course visit mines and water facilities in the American Southwest.
3Q: Jeffrey Ravel on the French past and our future
With MIT hosting a global French history conference, a look at the international growth of — and changes in — the field.
Living in a material world
Report finds materials manufacturers will likely be unable to meet targets for carbon-emissions reductions by 2050.