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PostDecember 17, 2020

To boost emissions reductions from electric vehicles, know when to charge

MIT Energy Initiative

The time of day when an electric vehicle (EV) is charged can have a large impact on reducing its emissions. In California, home to half of the EVs in the United States, charging at midday reduces EV emissions by more than 40 percent when compared to charging at night.

PostDecember 11, 2020

Case studies show climate variation linked to rise and fall of medieval nom...

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

In the grassland steppes of Inner Asia, climate has a major impact on plant growth. Pastoral economies, which depend on grazing livestock like horse and sheep, are affected in turn.

PostDecember 1, 2020

3 Questions: Hessam AzariJafari on mitigating climate change with reflectiv...

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Reflective pavements could reduce the frequency of heat waves in Chicago by around 30 percent over 20 years.

PostNovember 17, 2020

Study reconstructs ancient storms to predict changes in a cyclone hotspot

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

PostNovember 9, 2020

3 Questions: COVID-19 shutdowns highlight complex chemistry in the atmosphe...

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

PostNovember 1, 2020

COMMENTARY: Multiple extreme climate events can combine to produce catastro...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: Napa Valley vineyards engulfed by wildfire during extreme heat and severe drought.(Source: Yale Climate Connections)

PostOctober 26, 2020

Valuing private car ownership and use in the U.S. with Joanna Moody

MIT Energy Initiative

PostOctober 16, 2020

Saudi Arabia faces increased heat, humidity, precipitation extremes by mid-...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: In the desert west of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Source: Flickr/Angus Hamilton Haywood)

PostOctober 14, 2020

3 Questions: The price of privacy in ride-sharing app performance

Masking location data helps avoid the identification of users in case of a security breach, but this loss of information can also lead to poorer quality of service in a location-based ride-sharing app.

PostSeptember 25, 2020

MIT researchers highlight the impacts of logjams in river restoration proje...

Researchers Elizabeth Follett and Isabella Schalko, and Professor Heidi Nepf, detail their analysis of 584 experiments measuring the backwater rise induced by model logjams in an experimental flume.

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