The 2024 report highlights five years of global progress but uncovers gaps between companies’ sustainability goals and the investments required to achieve them.
Today’s regulations for nuclear reactors are unprepared for how the field is evolving. PhD student Liam Hines wants to ensure that policy keeps up with the technology.
A U.S. program provides important flood insurance relief, but it’s used more in communities with greater means to protect themselves.
The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts.
The major effort to accelerate practical climate change solutions launches as its mission directors meet the Institute community.
Professor Ronald Prinn reflects on how far sustainability has come as a discipline, and where it all began at MIT.
The MIT Electric Vehicle Team, Sustainable Engine Team, Solar Electric Vehicle Team, Motorsports Team, First Nations Launch Team, and Arcturus are each doing their part to improve the health of our planet.
Membranes based on natural silk and cellulose can remove many contaminants, including “forever chemicals” and heavy metals.
The first comprehensive model of rotor aerodynamics could improve the way turbine blades and wind farms are designed and how wind turbines are controlled.
MIT researchers have found a way to make structural materials last longer under the harsh conditions inside a fusion reactor.
Sublime Systems, founded by Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and former postdoc Leah Ellis, has developed a sustainable way to make one of the world’s most common materials.
Context Labs, led by Dan Harple SM ’13, uses AI-enabled data analytics and verification to help companies measure their true greenhouse emissions and document reductions.
New center taps Institute-wide expertise to improve understanding of, and responses to, sustainability challenges.