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PostApril 11, 2025

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scient...

For the coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years — or more often — by the end of the century, scientists report. In this photo, a Bangladeshi woman and child walk over the top of a sandbag embankment in Khulna on May 4, 2019.

PostNovember 25, 2024

New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding

A generative AI model visualizes how floods in Texas would look like in satellite imagery. The original photo is on the left, and the AI generated image is in on the right.

PostOctober 23, 2024

Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

Graduate student Ernie I. H. Lee uses drone imaging and machine learning to help map salt marsh species, plant height, and shoots per bed area.

PostSeptember 30, 2024

Where flood policy helps most — and where it could do more

Hurricane Debby flooded homes and cars in Sarasota, Florida in August 2024.

PostApril 4, 2024

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

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

MIT Global Change Forum panel on climate communications

PostOctober 6, 2023

AGU Fall Meeting to encourage the pursuit of Open Science

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: AGU Fall Meeting Central Exhibit Hall (Source: AGU)

PostJuly 24, 2023

Coal's Dying Light: The decline of coal is hurting Kentucky and communities...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

PostApril 4, 2023

Staying the course: Achieving climate change goals in turbulent times

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: The XLV (45th) MIT Global Change Forum explored how decision-makers can stay on course in achieving climate change goals as the world confronts multiple and expanding crises. (Source: NASA)

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.

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.

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