Evaluating the global energy system
Meet the team of postdocs developing the MIT Energy Initiative's energy life-cycle assessment tool.
Meet the team of postdocs developing the MIT Energy Initiative's energy life-cycle assessment tool.
Committing to aggressive conservation efforts could rebuild ocean habitats and species populations in a few decades.
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.
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers are investigating how the layouts, or textures, of cities influence extreme weather events.
MIT researchers describe factors governing how oceans and atmospheres move heat around on Earth and other planetary bodies.
Recovering and safely destroying the sources of these chemicals could speed ozone recovery and reduce climate change.
With support from renewable energy sources, the MIT research scientist says, we can consider hydrogen fuel as a tool for decarbonization.
A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood.
Speakers at MIT climate symposium outline the steps needed to achieve global carbon neutrality by midcentury.
Investments in energy efficiency projects, sustainable design elements essential as campus transforms.
Starting with higher-value niche markets and then expanding could help perovskite-based solar panels become competitive with silicon.
Device developed within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has the potential to replace damaged organs with lab-grown ones.
Fikile Brushett and his team are designing electrochemical technology to secure the planet’s energy future.
“Go Beyond” Award celebrates commitment to excellence in efficiency and sustainability.
Solar panel costs have dropped lately, but slimming down silicon wafers could lead to even lower costs and faster industry expansion.