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PostApril 20, 2022

Amy Moran-Thomas receives the Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The Edgerton Award Selection Committee writes that anthropologist Moran-Thomas “stands out in [her] field by bringing a humanistic approach into dialogue with environmental and science studies to investigate how bodily health is shaped by social well-being at the community level and further conditioned by localized planetary imbalances."
PostMarch 4, 2022

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness int...

MIT News
Faculty from teams in the “Building equity and fairness into climate solutions” category share their thoughts on the need for inclusive solutions that prioritize disadvantaged, minority, and indigenous populations.
PostDecember 20, 2021

Zimbabwe’s climate migration is a sign of what’s to come

MIT Technology Review
PostNovember 3, 2021

Unchecked growth of industrial animal farms spurs long fight for environmen...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
An aerial view of an industrial hog farm and lagoons filled with waste in eastern North Carolina.
PostNovember 3, 2021

Decades of legal battles over pollution by industrial hog farms haven’t c...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Screenshot from the Bladen County Tax Assessor website shows two parcels of land: One 261 acre parcel was purchased by Kinlaw Farms LLC in 1998, the other 34 acre plot (outlined in blue) was purchased by Billy Kinlaw in 1994.
PostNovember 3, 2021

MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7 million initiative to addres...

MIT News
Noelle Eckley Selin, director of the MIT Technology and Policy Program and professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, is one of the principals in a new collaboration with Biogen.
PostOctober 7, 2021

New “risk triage” platform pinpoints compounding threats to US infrastr...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
As climate change amplifies the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other extreme events in the United States and around the world, and the populations and economies they threaten grow and change, there is a critical need to make infrastructure more resilient. A new "risk triage" platform developed by the MIT Joint Program could help decision-makers to take action to mitigate and adapt to multiple, compounding risks that face the nation.(Source: Severe Weather Europe)
PostSeptember 22, 2021

Institute Professor Paula Hammond named to White House science council

MIT News
Professor Paula Hammond, the head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
PostSeptember 22, 2021

Study: Global cancer risk from burning organic matter comes from unregulate...

MIT News
Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car’s exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — a class of pollutants that is known to cause lung cancer.
PostAugust 17, 2021

Smarter regulation of global shipping emissions could improve air quality a...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
The main source of shipping emissions is the combustion of heavy fuel oil in large diesel engines, which disperses pollutants into the air over coastal areas.

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