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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

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.

PostJuly 29, 2024

Study tracks exposure to air pollution through the day

Researchers found people’s exposure to particulate matter 2.5 microns or bigger rises by about 2.4 percent when daily travel patterns are taken into account.

PostJune 7, 2024

Improving working environments amid environmental distress

Namrata Kala, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, often studies environmental problems and their effects on workers and firms.

PostMay 28, 2024

Convening for cultural change

An urban studies and planning major with minors in anthropology and biology, Cindy Xie is also earning her master’s degree in city planning in a dual degree program.

PostApril 4, 2024

The heat is on: Accelerating climate action at a time of record-breaking te...

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MIT Global Change Forum panel on climate communications

PostFebruary 13, 2024

Study measures the psychological toll of wildfires

Wildfires in Southeast Asia significantly affect the moods of people in many neighboring countries, with people becoming more upset if fires originate outside their own country, according to a new study analyzing social media activity. Pictured is a 2019 forest fire in Central Kalimantan.

PostFebruary 5, 2024

MIT researchers map the energy transition’s effects on jobs

A new map shows which U.S. counties have the highest concentration of jobs that could be affected by the transition to renewable energy, based on new research by Christopher Knittel, the George P. Shultz Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Kailin Graham, of MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Counties in blue are less potentially affected by the energy transition, and counties in red are more potentially affected.

PostJanuary 17, 2024

K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center will prioritize innovat...

Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center founder Lisa Yang (left) sits with GEAR Center director Amos Winter, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering.

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