Climate News at MIT

Joe Higgins, MIT’s vice president for campus services and stewardship, speaks with Boston Globe reporter Sabrina Shankman about the Consortium for Climate Solutions, a new effort led by MIT, Harvard...

Inspired by his daily walks, Prof. Elfatih Eltahir and his colleagues have developed a new way to measure how climate change is likely to impact the number of days when it is comfortable to be...

Wall Street Journal reporter John Anderson spotlights NOVA’s “Building Stuff: Change It!” – a program that follows engineers, including Prof. Maria Yang, as they “seek to help humanity adapt to a...

The Consortium for Climate Solutions, which is led by MIT, Harvard and Mass General Brigham, is helping to build and run a solar farm in Texas and a wind farm in North Dakota, which should generate...

Research Scientist Susan Amrose speaks with Knowable Magazine reporter Lele Nargi about the use of inland desalination for farming communities. Amrose, who studies inland desalination in the Middle...

David Zipper, a senior fellow at the Mobility Imitative, writes for Fast Company about the future of the electric vehicle market. “With EVs comprising less than one in ten new car purchases, most...

Researchers at MIT have developed a “new type of transistor using semiconductor nanowires made up of gallium antimonide and iridium arsenide,” reports Alex Knapp for Forbes. “The transistors were...

Prof. Christopher Reinhart speaks with GBH reporter Craig LeMoult about the feasibility of harvesting energy from the Charles River. Reinhart notes that using renewable heat pumps along with the old...

Writing for MarketWatch, Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab, examines how the revival of nuclear power could be beneficial for older workers with expertise in the industry. “The myth of older...

Postdoctoral associate Stewart Isaacs SM '19 PhD '24 speaks with Physics Today reporter Toni Feder about his academic career and research “addressing climate change and social inequities through the...