3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
As U.N. negotiations begin this week on a global mercury treaty, an MIT atmospheric scientist explains the challenges ahead.
3 Questions: John Marshall on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
An MIT oceanographer discusses why ‘we have never had a spill like this’ — and what that means for cleanup efforts.
‘Efficiency Forward'
Ambitious collaboration between MIT and NSTAR aims to cut campus electricity use by 15 percent over 3 years.
Pooling MIT’s resources to ‘rethink’ water
Workshop assesses scope of water research currently underway at Institute, eyes work that lies ahead.
Environmental Research Council issues report
Council is asked to develop plan to establish MIT Environmental Initiative
Fly the eco-friendly skies
MIT-led team designs airplanes that would use 70 percent less fuel than current models.
Slideshow: Mapping the oil spill
MIT student leads project using balloons and kites to provide aerial documentation of the Gulf oil slick’s extent and effects
3 Questions: Stephen Connors on offshore wind farms
What the federal approval of the Cape Wind project will mean for Massachusetts and the nation
Fund helps energy efficiency bloom across campus
Alumni gifts support the greening of MIT, and the resulting savings are being reinvested in similar projects.
In the World: Clean Water for Ghana
MIT students help a researcher build a factory that could provide water filters for 1 million people in northern Ghana
New phenomenon found in internal waves
MIT team shows that waves inside oceans, air and stars are filtered and reflected by layers.
Four decades of Earth Days
MIT plans a week of events and activities to mark Earth Day’s 40th anniversary.
Viruses harnessed to split water
MIT team’s biologically based system taps the power of sunlight directly, with the aim of turning water into hydrogen fuel.
Using plants to purify canal water
Researchers outline a natural way to clean Italy's polluted Pontine Marshes