Tackling a global warming conundrum
MIT professor and colleagues address major issue in climate science: greenhouse gases versus aerosols.
MIT professor and colleagues address major issue in climate science: greenhouse gases versus aerosols.
MIT, Harvard professors map future trends, reveal ways to reduce mercury levels on eve of final international meeting for mercury control.
MIT researchers, using field practices, find emissions from shale gas production to be significantly lower than previous estimates.
Study: An expanded Heathrow Airport would lead to 100 more pollution-related early deaths annually in the U.K. by 2030.
Atmospheric science pioneer Susan Solomon speaks on past environmental accomplishments, technology’s role and how history should be our guide to meeting today’s global challenges.
MIT researchers devise a surprisingly simple but effective method for magnetically separating oil and water.
MIT researchers have built a model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments.
Resulting microbial lipids may also signify oxygen dips in Earth’s history.
Levels began to climb in the 1970s, peaking a decade ago — a timeline consistent with the region’s pattern of leaded gasoline use.
Researchers find car exhaust causes more premature deaths than car accidents.
Surface coatings developed by MIT researchers could inhibit buildup of methane hydrates that can block deep-sea oil and gas wells.
Despite improvements in air quality, the economic impact of air pollution has increased dramatically, new MIT study shows.
Noelle Eckley Selin joins the EPA's regional administrator, Curt Spalding, and other public health experts to speak about the EPA's recent Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
MIT researchers improve upon methods to model atmospheric aerosols.