New “risk triage” platform pinpoints compounding threats to US infrastructure
Modeling tool showcases emerging MIT Joint Program research focus on multi-sector dynamics.
Modeling tool showcases emerging MIT Joint Program research focus on multi-sector dynamics.
2021 Global Change Outlook from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows how more aggressive policies can sharply reduce climate risk.
MIT report highlights challenges and opportunities for conserving natural resources and stabilizing the climate.
Study projects likely impacts on food prices, bioenergy production, and deforestation.
MIT research scientist C. Adam Schlosser assesses long-term risks to regional water and energy systems.
Report projects impacts of 2015 Paris climate agreement, identifies emissions paths/technology advances needed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
John Lienhard leads coordinated interdisciplinary research efforts to confront resource challenges at the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab.
Championing biophysics research: MIT professor Jeff Gore brings together interdisciplinary team, explores population dynamics in yeast and honeybees.
MIT graduate student Lei Dai working with Pennsylvania researchers to apply population dynamics to hive collapse problem.
Biophysicist Jeff Gore and collaborators urge applying lessons from yeast colony collapse to tumor growth.
MIT researchers find that by 2050 more than half the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas and about a billion or more will not have sufficient water resources.
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why.
Spatial measurements of population density could reveal when threatened natural populations are in danger of crashing.
In some populations, natural antibiotics are produced by a few individuals whose closest relatives carry genes conferring resistance.
A growing population and rapid development will put a strain on land used to grow food over the next century. But if reforestation is used to avoid climate change it will create further strain, says a new MIT study.