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PostJune 1, 2025

Who owns most of the farmland in Illinois? Not farmers.

A view from ground-level of a cornfield with rain clouds passing overhead and wind turbines in the background.

PostMay 30, 2025

A test bed for sustainable manufacturing

An illustration of a person holding a globe. Coins are being sucked out of the globe and into a cloud of smoke pouring out of a factory, presenting environmental cost.

PostMay 20, 2025

How to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion

MIT researchers added nanoscale filtering membranes to a carbon-capture system, separating the ions that carry out the capture and release steps, and enabling both steps to proceed more efficiently.

PostMay 6, 2025

How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system?

MIT Energy Initiative

India has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions, a difficult task as the country’s electric power system relies on many coal-burning power plants. While some of the plants are fuel-efficient (right), many more are not (left). MITEI researchers have explored and clarified India’s decarbonization options and have posted their methods and results for use by other countries in the midst of similar energy transitions.

PostApril 26, 2025

As climate change pushes dry weather east, striking changes are coming to D...

A truck and house destroyed by the Smokehouse Creek Fire are seen, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Stinnett, Texas. The wildfire became the largest in state history at over one million acres. Climatologists believe wildfires will become more common as global temperatures warm

PostApril 24, 2025

Good Spillover, Bad Spillover? Industrial Policy, Trade, and the Political ...

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

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PostMarch 5, 2025

Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs

An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. Foreground image of the ozone layer is from Sept. 28, 2024.

PodcastFebruary 26, 2025

The reality of capturing carbon

MIT Energy Initiative

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PostFebruary 19, 2025

Projecting and reducing the global economic impacts of climate change

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: Los Angeles wildfires, January 2025 (Source: City of Irvine, California)

PostJanuary 12, 2025

Designing tiny filters to solve big problems

“I would love to see a world where we could eliminate thermal separations, and where heat is no longer a problem in creating the things that we need and producing the energy that we need,” Zachary Smith says.

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