Skip to main content

Search

Main navigation

Climate 101
Explore
MIT Action
- News
- Events
- Resources
Search

Main navigation

Climate 101
Explore
MIT Action
- News
- Events
- Resources
Search

Students gather around a display of a coral reef at an MIT event

Climate News at MIT

The latest climate change research and action happening in and around MIT.

Topics

Adaptation
Arctic & Antarctic
Arts & Communication
Atmosphere
Biodiversity
Buildings
(-) Carbon Capture
Carbon Removal
Cities & Planning
Climate Modeling
Education
Energy
Finance & Economics
- Carbon Pricing
Food, Water & Agriculture
Forests
Geoengineering
Government & Policy
Health & Medicine
Humanities & Social Science
- Climate Justice
Industry & Manufacturing
MIT Action
Oceans
- Sea Level Rise
Transportation
Waste
Weather & Natural Disasters

Content type

Educator Guide
Podcast
Post
Video

Sort

PostJanuary 21, 2025

The multifaceted challenge of powering AI

MIT Energy Initiative

There are now over 5,000 data centers in the United States, like this one in northern Virginia, and new ones are being built every day.

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.

PostJanuary 2, 2025

Unlocking the hidden power of boiling — for energy, space, and beyond

Uncovering the physics of boiling could enable advances in efficient energy production, electronics cooling, water desalination, medical diagnostics, and more.

PostDecember 17, 2024

MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s fir...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ new fusion power plant is expected to come online in the early 2030s and generate about 400 megawatts of clean, carbon-free electricity — enough to power large industrial sites or about 150,000 homes.

PostDecember 4, 2024

A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful

MIT chemical engineers designed a two-part catalyst that can convert methane gas to useful products. The catalyst consists of iron-modified aluminum silicate plus an enzyme called alcohol oxidase (enzyme not pictured).

PodcastNovember 25, 2024

Rising to the climate challenge

MIT Energy Initiative

PodcastNovember 25, 2024

Decarbonizing energy: The government’s role

MIT Energy Initiative

PostNovember 20, 2024

Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air

MIT Energy Initiative

Pictured are two of the four absorber units at Climeworks’ direct air capture and storage plant, Orca, in Hellisheidi, Iceland. Each absorber unit can remove about 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

PodcastNovember 20, 2024

Making the case for climate optimism

MIT Energy Initiative

Illustrations of energy infrastructure and type saying Making the case for climate optimism.

PostNovember 1, 2024

As a closed Utah uranium mill seeks state approval to reopen, taxpayers are...

Pagination

Previous page
Page1
Current page2
Page3
Page4
Page5
Next page

11 - 20 of 245

MIT Climate News in Your Inbox

MIT Groups Log In

Footer

About
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Accessibility
Contact

Communicator Award Winner

Search