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PostJanuary 24, 2025

How cities are weathering the climate crisis

Lawrence Vale is the co-author of the new book, “The Equitably Resilient City,” published by MIT Press.

PostJanuary 23, 2025

What happens after Utah’s coal-fired power plants close?

a solar plant being installed in front of Huntington Power Plant in Emory County, Utah

PostJanuary 10, 2025

Q&A: Examining American attitudes on global climate policies

An MIT team recently published a study on public sentiment regarding climate policy. The co-authors are (left to right) Professor Evan Lieberman, Associate Professor Volha Charnysh, PhD student Jared Kalow, and Erin Walk PhD ’24. “Our research suggests that emphasizing a bit of blaming and shaming is more powerful than more diffuse messages of shared responsibility,” Lieberman explains.

PostDecember 25, 2024

How Utah’s Christmas Festival has buoyed a changing coal community

Residents and visitors watch as the city float drives by in the annual light parade in Helper, Utah.

PostDecember 23, 2024

Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers

Dillion Grimmett, a coal miner who works at Gentry, sits in the mine’s main office entryway.

PostDecember 13, 2024

What will it take for the American steel industry to go ‘fossil-free’?

At HYBRIT's fossil-free steel plant in Luleå, Sweden, hydrogen made with renewable electricity turns reddish iron ore pellets, left, into grey pellets of sponge iron, which are ready to be melted down and made into steel.

PostDecember 11, 2024

In Sweden, companies are cleaning up steel production — one of the world'...

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).

PostNovember 26, 2024

Decarbonizing heavy industry with thermal batteries

The electrically conductive firebricks could help hard-to-decarbonize sectors utilize renewable energy for the first time.

PostNovember 22, 2024

A vision for U.S. science success

Arati Prabhakar is President Biden’s science advisor and the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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