Innovations in environmental training for the mining industry
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and multinational mining company Vale bring sustainability education to young engineering professionals in Brazil.
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and multinational mining company Vale bring sustainability education to young engineering professionals in Brazil.
Graduate student Linda Zhong and professor of biology Anthony Sinskey are studying the plastic-devouring enzyme PETase as a way to improve recycling.
Study reveals drainage, deforestation of the region’s peatlands, which leads to fires, greenhouse emissions, land subsidence.
The award will support the MIT anthropologist's research on the cultural dimensions of climate denialism.
Committing to aggressive conservation efforts could rebuild ocean habitats and species populations in a few decades.
Recovering and safely destroying the sources of these chemicals could speed ozone recovery and reduce climate change.
Whisk-shaped device absorbs trace contaminants, preserves them in dry state that can be shipped to labs for analysis.
Study tracks pollution from state to state in the 48 contiguous United States.
Workshop highlights how MIT research can guide adaptation at local, regional, and national scales.
A new study looks at how the global energy mix could change over the next 20 years.
Evaluating a 2014 policy change yields some good news and some concerns.
Finalists presented an alternative to nondegradable plastics, and an additive to help plastics decompose.
Renewlogy’s system is converting plastic waste from cities and rivers into fuel.
Solugen’s engineered enzymes offer a biologically-inspired method for producing the chemical.
MIT associate professor of urban studies Mariana Arcaya examines health disparities within metro areas.