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PostNovember 3, 2021

Unchecked growth of industrial animal farms spurs long fight for environmen...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

An aerial view of an industrial hog farm and lagoons filled with waste in eastern North Carolina.

PostNovember 3, 2021

Decades of legal battles over pollution by industrial hog farms haven’t c...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Screenshot from the Bladen County Tax Assessor website shows two parcels of land: One 261 acre parcel was purchased by Kinlaw Farms LLC in 1998, the other 34 acre plot (outlined in blue) was purchased by Billy Kinlaw in 1994.

PostNovember 3, 2021

MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7 million initiative to addres...

Noelle Eckley Selin, director of the MIT Technology and Policy Program and professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, is one of the principals in a new collaboration with Biogen.

PostOctober 7, 2021

New “risk triage” platform pinpoints compounding threats to US infrastr...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

As climate change amplifies the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other extreme events in the United States and around the world, and the populations and economies they threaten grow and change, there is a critical need to make infrastructure more resilient. A new "risk triage" platform developed by the MIT Joint Program could help decision-makers to take action to mitigate and adapt to multiple, compounding risks that face the nation.(Source: Severe Weather Europe)

PostSeptember 22, 2021

Institute Professor Paula Hammond named to White House science council

Professor Paula Hammond, the head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

PostSeptember 22, 2021

Study: Global cancer risk from burning organic matter comes from unregulate...

Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car’s exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — a class of pollutants that is known to cause lung cancer.

PostSeptember 17, 2021

Research collaboration puts climate-resilient crops in sight

The Des Marais Lab at MIT uses the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon to understand plant-environment interaction. Here, replicate plants are receiving two different levels of soil water availability to study genetic differences in response to drying.

PostSeptember 3, 2021

How Ida dodged NYC’s flood defenses

MIT Technology Review

Rain from Hurricane Ida floods the basement of a fast food restaurant in the Bronx.

Educator GuideAugust 19, 2021

Sea Level Rise and Climate Change Educator Guide

TILclimate Podcast

TIL about sea level rise part 2: educator guide

PostAugust 17, 2021

Smarter regulation of global shipping emissions could improve air quality a...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

The main source of shipping emissions is the combustion of heavy fuel oil in large diesel engines, which disperses pollutants into the air over coastal areas.

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