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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 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

Circular ripples in a pond

PostJanuary 3, 2022

The architect making friends with flooding

MIT Technology Review

Nanchang Yuweizhou Wetland Park

PostOctober 18, 2021

How marsh grass protects shorelines

A new MIT study provides greater detail about how thes protective benefits of marsh plants work under real-world conditions shaped by waves and currents. The simulated plants used in lab experiments were designed based on Spartina alterniflora, which is a common coastal marsh plant.

PostDecember 27, 2018

Exploring New England's coastal ecosystems in the dead of winter

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