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PostDecember 31, 2020

Aerosols from pollution, desert storms, and forest fires may intensify thun...

MIT scientists have discovered a new mechanism by which aerosols may intensify thunderstorms in tropical regions.

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.

PodcastOctober 29, 2020

E9: TIL about cleaning up clean tech

TILclimate Podcast

PostOctober 21, 2020

Engineers design a heated face mask to filter and inactivate coronaviruses

A team of researchers from MIT now hopes to go one step further than conventional masks that filter out viruses and create a mask that inactivates viruses using heat.

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

Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

A prototype of the new two-stage water harvesting system (center right), was tested on an MIT rooftop. The device, which was connected to a laptop for data collection and was mounted at an angle to face the sun, has a black solar collecting plate at the top, and the water it produced flowed into two tubes at bottom.

PostAugust 28, 2020

The Timing and Effectiveness of Subsidies for Agricultural Technology Adopt...

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

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PostAugust 20, 2020

Yes, climate change is almost certainly fueling California’s massive fire...

MIT Technology Review

PostJuly 22, 2020

Chemists make tough plastics recyclable

Thermoset polymers, found in car parts and electrical appliances, have to be durable and heat-resistant, but typically cannot be easily recycled or broken down after use. MIT chemists have now developed a way to modify thermoset plastics that allows them to be more easily broken down without compromising their mechanical strength.

PostJuly 7, 2020

Innovations in environmental training for the mining industry

MINE Program students and other program participants at a hackathon in Salvador, Brazil, are pictured here before the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted such gatherings.

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