Environment

MIT civil and environmental engineering student Mustafa Dafalla '09 gathers water samples at a pond in Niger to check for malaria larvae.

How to fight malaria by changing the environment

Leveling land can help control disease's spread, computer modeling finds

December 19, 2008

Water supplies could be strongly affected by climate change

Changes in rainfall can be amplified, up or down, in changes to aquifers

December 18, 2008

MITEI, Total announce energy research collaboration

December 18, 2008

Schematic of an oscillating water column. Waves enter through a subsurface opening into the chamber with air trapped above. The wave action causes the captured water column to move up and down, pushing the trapped air into an electricity-generating turbine. The turbine turns continuously, despite the changing direction of the air stream as the waves come in and out.

Catch the wave

Researchers eye clean energy possibilities along Portuguese coast

December 17, 2008

Roman Stocker holds the small microbial ecosystem he developed.

A plankton-eat-plankton world

Tiny ecosystem may shed light on key ocean microbes and their role in influencing climate

December 15, 2008

Saturation maps from a numerical simulation of the proposed model show that the flow dynamics and the distinctive saturation overshoot at the tip of the fingers agree with experimental observations.

Researchers finger the cause of 'gravity fingers'

December 12, 2008

Ayr Muir '00, SM '01 at his food truck, the Clover Food Lab, which is the newest addition to MIT's food truck population on Carleton Street. The Clover Food Lab is an all-vegetarian, eco-friendly mobile eatery.

Alumnus returns to open eco-friendly truck

December 8, 2008

MIT Sloan students are finalists in X-Prize video contest

Online votes will determine winner in ideas for new 'green' prize

November 20, 2008

Burying the greenhouse gas

New tool could aid safe underground storage of CO2

November 17, 2008

MIT's Ashleigh Hildebrand and Howard Herzog are working toward a more eco-friendly option for coal power plants.

A quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner

'Partial capture' of emissions could be near-term move

November 17, 2008

Financial crisis could slow energy research

November 14, 2008

MIT analysis shows how cap-and-trade plans can cut greenhouse emissions

November 13, 2008

2008-09 Xerox MIT fellows celebrated

November 12, 2008

Awards and honors: Oct. 22, 2008

October 22, 2008

Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz speaks at the Energy Advisory Board meeting at MIT on Oct. 15.

Shultz urges cut in U.S. oil dependence at MIT event

Moving ahead on energy requires understanding and innovation

October 17, 2008

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - On Campus and Around the world

Browse By

Topics

Departments

Centers, Labs, & Programs

Schools

Topic