Environment

Tracking trash

Project aims to raise awareness of how garbage impacts the environment

July 15, 2009

Greenhouse gases made visible

Fed by MIT data, display shows extent of human-caused emissions

June 22, 2009

Cutting CO2 emissions from existing coal plants

MIT Energy Initiative report details findings of symposium, identifies next steps

June 19, 2009

International Engineering Systems Symposium addresses complex, large-scale challenges

June 17, 2009

The figure illustrates a hierarchical network of carbon nanotubes mimicking a cell's protein network to connect a small heat source (red area) to a larger area that serves as a heat sink.

Taking the heat off

Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material

June 16, 2009

Professor Franz-Josef Ulm with the nanoindentation machine in his research lab.

MIT engineers find way to slow concrete creep to a crawl

June 15, 2009

Students enjoyed themselves at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) senior and awards dinner held at Endicott House May 15. Left to right: Graduate student J. Alberto Ortega, winner of the Trond Kaalstad (Class of 1957) Fellowship; senior Mahalia Miller, winner of the Steinberg Prize; and graduate students Zenzile Brooks and James Vanzo.

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

June 3, 2009

Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., hosts a nuclear waste discussion at MIT on May 18.

Waste, or energy resource?

Panel weighs options on disposal of spent nuclear fuel

May 19, 2009

Ronald Prinn, director of MIT's Center for Global Change Science, and his group have revised their model that shows how much hotter the Earth's climate will get in this century without substantial policy change. Standing with the group's "roulette wheel" are, from left to right, Mort Webster, professor in the Engineering Systems Division; Adam Schlosser, principal research scientist at the Center ...

Climate change odds much worse than thought

New analysis shows warming could be double previous estimates

May 19, 2009

Small RNAs yield great amounts of data from ocean microbe samples

May 14, 2009

Nobel Laureate and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu speaks at MIT.

Energy research is the key, Chu says

Energy secretary says new technology is essential to avert climate catastrophe

May 13, 2009

A solar power generator in Lesotho, Africa, designed by MIT students that recently won a coveted EPA grant.

MIT student project wins coveted EPA award

May 12, 2009

The first Sustainability Summit filled the house for a series of talks, panel discussions and breakout sessions and capped off four days of Earth Week activities on campus.

Summit explores global sustainability

New MIT student group hosts premier event

April 28, 2009

DOE to establish two Energy Frontier Research Centers at MIT

April 27, 2009

Back to (basics for) the future?

Ochsendorf to discuss intertwining of engineering's past, future

April 24, 2009

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