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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.

PostApril 4, 2024

The heat is on: Accelerating climate action at a time of record-breaking te...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

MIT Global Change Forum panel on climate communications

PostMarch 26, 2024

Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce...

An MIT team is hoping to fortify coastlines with “architected” reefs — sustainable, offshore structures that are engineered to mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while also providing pockets for fish and other marine life to live.

PostAugust 17, 2023

Bianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries

Aerial photograph of an ocean wave crashing

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

PostMay 11, 2023

Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to se...

New research suggests the Prochlorococcus microbe’s ancient coastal ancestors colonized the ocean by rafting out on chitin particles.

Educator GuideMay 17, 2022

The Ocean and Climate Change Educator Guide

TILclimate Podcast

PodcastApril 27, 2022

E1&2: TIL about the changing ocean

TILclimate Podcast

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