On Earth Day, lessons from Covid-19 pandemic offer hope
“Every emergency reveals that ‘impossible’ things are actually doable,” President Rafael Reif writes in Boston Globe op-ed.
Can financial disclosure of climate risk accelerate climate action?
Online panel discussion hosted by MIT explores best practices for mitigating climate-related risk.
Attacking climate change, one human story at a time
An MIT course arms students with rhetorical weaponry to fight global warming.
Energy economics class inspires students to pursue clean energy careers
The Electricity Strategy Game is a prominent feature in 15.0201/14.43 (Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability).
Evaluating the global energy system
Meet the team of postdocs developing the MIT Energy Initiative's energy life-cycle assessment tool.
3 Questions: Greg Britten on how marine life can recover by 2050
Committing to aggressive conservation efforts could rebuild ocean habitats and species populations in a few decades.
Explained: Cement vs. concrete — their differences, and opportunities for sustainability
Concrete is the world’s most consumed construction material. Yet there’s a lot the public doesn’t know about it or its environmental impact.
Discerning the texture of urban resilience
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers are investigating how the layouts, or textures, of cities influence extreme weather events.
Staring into the vortex
MIT researchers describe factors governing how oceans and atmospheres move heat around on Earth and other planetary bodies.
Emissions of several ozone-depleting chemicals are larger than expected
Recovering and safely destroying the sources of these chemicals could speed ozone recovery and reduce climate change.
3 Questions: Emre Gençer on the evolving role of hydrogen in the energy system
With support from renewable energy sources, the MIT research scientist says, we can consider hydrogen fuel as a tool for decarbonization.
New approach to sustainable building takes shape in Boston
A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood.
Deep cuts in greenhouse emissions are tough but doable, experts say
Speakers at MIT climate symposium outline the steps needed to achieve global carbon neutrality by midcentury.
MIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals
Investments in energy efficiency projects, sustainable design elements essential as campus transforms.
Researchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
Starting with higher-value niche markets and then expanding could help perovskite-based solar panels become competitive with silicon.