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Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change

Iron is an essential nutrient for phytoplankton growth, but a new study finds that artificially pumping vast amounts of iron into the oceans won’t bump up the microbes’ populations, or their capacity to sequester carbon dioxide.

MIT-powered climate resilience solution among top 100 proposals for MacArthur $100 Million Grant

By MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

JWAFS fellow Peter Godart is melding disciplines as he communicates the urgency of climate change through music

By Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

MIT Study Highlights Benefits of a Two-way Exchange of Electricity Between the U.S. Northeast and Quebec as Region Decarbonizes

Brainstorming energy-saving hacks on Satori, MIT’s new supercomputer

Several dozen students participated in the Green AI Hackathon, co-sponsored by the MIT Research Computing Project and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

Is it energy or electricity?

By TILclimate Podcast

MIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals

How can an institution like MIT grow, and simultaneously work to lessen its greenhouse gas emissions and contributions to climate change?

Novel passive-solar desalination system developed by J-WAFS PI Evelyn Wang

By Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

MIT graduates working to develop smart packaging that senses when food spoils

By Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

MIT-powered climate resilience solution among top 100 proposals for MacArthur $100 Million Grant

By MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

MIT Dining & MIT Office of Sustainability receive grant for making MIT’s food system more sustainable

By Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

JWAFS fellow Peter Godart is melding disciplines as he communicates the urgency of climate change through music

By Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

Is it energy or electricity?

By TILclimate Podcast

TIL about fossil fuels

By TILclimate Podcast

Energy economics and air pollution

By MIT Energy Initiative

TIL about the electric grid

By TILclimate Podcast

Mobility of the Future

By MIT Energy Initiative

The age of living machines

By MIT Energy Initiative

Read MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change

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