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PostOctober 18, 2021

How marsh grass protects shorelines

A new MIT study provides greater detail about how thes protective benefits of marsh plants work under real-world conditions shaped by waves and currents. The simulated plants used in lab experiments were designed based on Spartina alterniflora, which is a common coastal marsh plant.

Educator GuideOctober 8, 2021

Supply Chains and Climate Change Educator Guide

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TILclimate cleaning up clean tech guide for educators

PostOctober 8, 2021

A French company is using enzymes to recycle one of the most common single-...

MIT Technology Review

2 clear, 1 orange, and 1 green plastic bottles

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 28, 2021

Pulling methane out of the atmosphere could slow global warming—if we can...

MIT Technology Review

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 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.

PostSeptember 2, 2021

Mitigating hazards with vulnerability in mind

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Ipek Bensu Manav (right) chats with Hessam AzariJafari, her colleague at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub. During her time at CSHub, Manav has placed engineering in its social and political contexts and built new connections in the process.

PostSeptember 2, 2021

J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food t...

MIT faculty who received 2021 J-WAFS Solutions grants include (top row, left to right) Daniel Frey, Leon Glicksman, Eric Verploegen; (bottom row, left to right) Greg Stephanopoulos, Anthony J. Sinskey, and Jongyoon Han.

PostSeptember 1, 2021

How to keep the power on during hurricanes and heat waves and fires and...

MIT Technology Review

Hurricane Ida knocked down transmission and distribution lines across parts of Louisiana.

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