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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.

PostJuly 17, 2024

Collaborative effort supports an MIT resilient to the impacts of extreme he...

MIT Office of Sustainability

A heat sensor captures data in the Kendall/MIT Open Space.

PostSeptember 5, 2023

3 Questions: How are cities managing record-setting temperatures?

MIT Associate Professor David Hsu is an expert in city policies concerning climate change. Following record-setting heat in the summer of 2023, he describes what cities are now doing in response, and the possibilities for new policy measures.

PostAugust 25, 2023

More homes mean more heat. Can new building codes help save metro Phoenix f...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Construction cranes in Phoenix on July 13, 2023, the 14th day in a row of temperatures 110 degrees or more.

PostJuly 31, 2023

As Arizona builds to solve a housing crisis, will its homes withstand futur...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Arizona is growing rapidly. How are cities preparing for the heat of the future?

PostJuly 6, 2023

Andrea Lo ’21 draws on ecological lessons for life, work, and education

Andrea Lo's personal research projects in Denmark involve collecting and analyzing samples to compare the conditions of two lagoons on the island of Fyn.

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.

PostMay 12, 2023

Finding “hot spots” where compounding environmental and economic risks ...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Exposure to airborne particulate matter in the United States

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

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