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PostOctober 16, 2025

Book reviews technologies aiming to remove carbon from the atmosphere

MIT Energy Initiative

“Carbon Removal,” by MIT Energy Initiative Senior Research Engineer Howard Herzog (pictured) and Professor Niall Mac Dowell of Imperial College London, explores the history and intricacies of removing carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere.

PostOctober 15, 2025

MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other indust...

To test their setup, researchers allowed algae cells to stick to the surface of the photobioreactor. When they applied a voltage, the bubbles separated the cells from the surfaces without harming them.

PostOctober 7, 2025

Combining agriculture with forestry could accelerate climate progress

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Agroforestry could accelerate climate progress

PostSeptember 30, 2025

3 Questions: Addressing the world’s most pressing challenges

“Our center was founded in response to rising geopolitical tensions and the urgent need for policy rooted in rigorous, evidence-based research,” says Mihaela Papa. “Today, as in our early years, the center brings together exceptional researchers with the ambition to address the world’s most pressing challenges in new and creative ways.”

PostAugust 28, 2025

When basic science and technology is not enough to address climate change

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Institute-wide project taps social science to reframe climate and sustainability problems and identify more viable solutions

PostJune 10, 2025

Recovering from the past and transitioning to a better energy future

MIT Energy Initiative

Emily Carter (right), the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, explained how climate change mitigation must include transformation, intervention, and adaptation strategies. William Green, director of the MIT Energy Initiative, moderated the discussion.

PodcastJune 5, 2025

Unraveling DNA to transform carbon

MIT Energy Initiative

PostJune 1, 2025

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

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

PostMay 20, 2025

How to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion

MIT researchers added nanoscale filtering membranes to a carbon-capture system, separating the ions that carry out the capture and release steps, and enabling both steps to proceed more efficiently.

PostApril 26, 2025

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

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

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