Explore | Climate

Find climate change education, research, innovation & discussion — from MIT and beyond.

What do you have to share?

Sign up to join the conversation

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)

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.

Is it energy or electricity?

By TILclimate Podcast

Half of U.S. deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

New MIT study finds more than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of cross-state pollution, or emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur.

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