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PostJune 1, 2025

Who owns most of the farmland in Illinois? Not farmers.

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A view from ground-level of a cornfield with rain clouds passing overhead and wind turbines in the background.
PostApril 26, 2025

As climate change pushes dry weather east, striking changes are coming to D...

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A truck and house destroyed by the Smokehouse Creek Fire are seen, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Stinnett, Texas. The wildfire became the largest in state history at over one million acres. Climatologists believe wildfires will become more common as global temperatures warm
PostFebruary 19, 2025

Projecting and reducing the global economic impacts of climate change

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
Photo: Los Angeles wildfires, January 2025 (Source: City of Irvine, California)
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
PostJuly 7, 2023

Battle for a Better Future

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
An aircraft dumps water on the edge of the Elmo Fire burning on the western shore of Flathead Lake on August 1, 2022.
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)
PostJanuary 6, 2022

Blockage: How politics, economics and other human forces obstruct a sustain...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Upper Klamath Lake from Moore Park on Oct. 28, 2021.
PostJanuary 3, 2022

Our water infrastructure needs to change

MIT Technology Review
PostNovember 4, 2021

Wyo residents observe a changing climate and quality of life

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Crook County rancher Thayne Gray on the family's Warbonnet Ranch outside Moorcroft on Sept. 23, 2021.
PostJuly 12, 2021

Fortifying Crops for Climate Change

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Researchers are using the lab-friendly grass Brachypodium—a good analog for classic cereal grains—to understand how intermittent drought affects plants at a molecular level. Image: Wikimedia Commons

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