Environment

Forum examines cities and climate change

June 10, 2008

MIT researchers are designing sensors that use carbon nanotubes, shown here in middle and at top, to detect hazardous gases.

Super-sensitive and small: New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases

June 5, 2008

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering head Professor Patrick Jaillet congratulates Jose Alberto Ortega on winning the Maseeh Award for excellence as a teaching assistant. The graduate student from Cuenca, Ecuador, was nominated by the faculty and students he assisted in 1.050 Engineering Mechanics I.

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

June 4, 2008

Tao Laoban works at cleaning one of the concrete solar cookers used in Tibet. A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

Harnessing the Tibetan sun

Student project aims to reduce deforestation and lung disease

June 4, 2008

Graduate student winners (left to right): Jared Toettcher (3rd place), Clement Tsz Yan Chan (2nd place), Erika Noonan (2nd place), and Aarthi Chandrasekaran (1st place).

CEHS awards 2008 research prizes

May 30, 2008

The mesh of nanowires behind MIT's new material for absorbing oil and other organic pollutants, here shown at increasing magnifications (left to right).

MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills

Nanowire mesh can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil

May 30, 2008

Center funds environmental health projects for 2008

May 27, 2008

Bras wins faculty's Killian Award

May 27, 2008

Figure shows the likely habitats of vibrio bacteria populations mapped by MIT researchers onto a phylogenetic tree for all strains found in the samples taken from the Atlantic Ocean near Plum Island, Mass. Dot colors indicate the size of the bacteria (the largest attach to zooplankton, next size attaches to large organic particles, then small organic particles, and finally the smallest are free-fl...

MIT scientists fathom ecological niches of ocean microbes

May 22, 2008

A FEMA trailer en route to the MIT campus, where it will form the centerpiece of a new course on research as artistic practice.

FEMA trailer gets new lease on life

May 21, 2008

Happy anniversary, Prochlorococcus

Researchers holding bash 20 years after microbe's discovery

May 21, 2008

The new, thin material developed by MIT engineers for use in methanol fuel cells.

MIT creates new material for fuel cells

Increases power output by more than 50 percent

May 16, 2008

MIT researchers have figured out how the phalarope, a shorebird with a long, narrow beak, transports its food from the tip of its beak to its mouth. Here the bird feeds by pecking at the water surface.

MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

Shorebirds take advantage of surface tension to capture prey

May 15, 2008

MIT student Kendra Johnson, right, conducts a coliform test with a young resident of Santa Ana, Ecuador. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('ecuador-filter-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Art + technology = clean water in Ecuador

May 14, 2008

Turn trash into treasure at May 9 FreeMeet

May 8, 2008

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