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

PodcastMay 29, 2025

E6: Dealing with dead batteries

TILclimate Podcast

PostMay 27, 2025

New fuel cell could enable electric aviation

An H-cell modified with electrodes and an ion-conducting ceramic membrane to conduct sodium-air fuel cell experiments.

PostApril 23, 2025

Batteries hold promise of clean, reliable Texas energy, if problems can be ...

Lithium ion battery storage containers are seen at Eolian's large-scale battery electrical storage facility, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Fort Worth

PostApril 10, 2025

Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage

MIT Energy Initiative

MIT PhD candidate Shaylin Cetegen (pictured) and her colleagues, Professor Emeritus Truls Gundersen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Professor Emeritus Paul Barton of MIT, have developed a comprehensive assessment of the potential role of “liquid air energy storage” for large-scale, long-duration storage on electric power grids of the future.

PostFebruary 20, 2025

Rooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost p...

An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects that contain sensors and software that connect to the internet, that are coordinated to increase power grid resilience.

PostFebruary 7, 2025

Cleaning up critical minerals and materials production, using microwave pla...

6K’s microwave plasma technology, called UniMelt, uses beams of tightly controlled thermal plasma to melt or vaporize precursor materials into particles with precise sizes and crystalline phases. Pictured is a photo from 6K’s factory showing some of its large plasma equipment.

PostJanuary 7, 2025

How hard is it to prevent recurring blackouts in Puerto Rico?

Hurricane Maria ravaged this neighborhood in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico.

PostJanuary 3, 2025

At MIT, Clare Grey stresses battery development to electrify the planet

Dame Clare Grey, Royal Society research professor and the Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, delivered the 2024 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecturer on Nov. 18.

PostDecember 13, 2024

In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste...

Left to right: Anastasia Duncan, Chris Rabe, and Jasmin Liu stand at the loading dock of MIT's Stata Center, where students and faculty go "crufting." Rabe facilitated an interdisciplinary working group of undergraduate and graduate students known as SERC Scholars to co-author a case study on the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.

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.

Pagination

Current page1
Page2
Page3
Page4
Page5
Next page

1 - 10 of 139

MIT Climate News in Your Inbox

MIT Groups Log In

Footer

About
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Accessibility
Contact

Communicator Award Winner

Search