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PostMarch 31, 2025

For plants, urban heat islands don’t mimic global warming

Meghan Blumstein studied red oak genotypes across New England, concentrating on trees that were within reach in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She then collaborated with people doing research at the Harvard Forest, a research forest in rural central Massachusetts.

PostFebruary 13, 2025

Mission: Climate

Storm clouds hover over a green field.

PodcastNovember 2, 2023

E5: Wildfires—and how we're changing them

TILclimate Podcast

PostAugust 22, 2023

Why salt marshes could help save Venice

MIT Technology Review

surveying Venice's central lagoon

PostJuly 24, 2023

Unfunded, uninsured and ignored: Experts urge support for flood protection ...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

PostJuly 24, 2023

'More intense, more water': West Virginians call for greater flood protecti...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

PostJune 15, 2023

Preparing Colombia’s cities for life amid changing forests

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Sean Anklam (left), Marcela Angel, and a team from Corpoamazonia in the mountains outside Mocoa, Colombia, make their way to deploy an unpioloted aerial vehicle on a test flight.

PostApril 21, 2022

Strengthening students’ knowledge and experience in climate and sustainab...

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

MIT student Stacy Godfreey-Igwe (pictured) is working in the Plata Lab at MIT. Associate Professor Desiree Plata is one of the instructors facilitating a new Climate and Sustainability Scholars Program at MIT.

PostApril 21, 2022

Given what we know, how do we live now?

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Circular ripples in a pond

PostFebruary 17, 2022

Advancing public understanding of sea-level rise

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

A new exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston focuses on the effects of sea-level rise around the world. It benefits from the work of MIT Professor Emerita Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, whose work on the Venetian Lagoon’s MOSE barrier project helped inform the exhibit. Seen here: aerial footage of St. Mark's Square, created through the use of 3D scans and images.

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