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PostOctober 14, 2025

Engineering next-generation fertilizers

A person wearing a white coat inspects tall green plants in a lab.

PostOctober 7, 2025

Fighting for the health of the planet with AI

“Machine learning is already really widely used for things like solar power forecasting, which is a prerequisite to managing and balancing power grids,” says EECS assistant professor and LIDS PI Priya Donti. “My focus is: How do you improve the algorithms for actually balancing power grids in the face of a range of time-varying renewables?”

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

Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

“We are on a path where the effects of climate change won’t be fully known until it is too late to do anything about it,” says Jennifer Turliuk MBA ’25, who is working to help policymakers, scientists, and enterprises consider the multifaceted costs and benefits of generative AI. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to innovate and make AI systems less carbon-intense.”

PostSeptember 15, 2025

Climate Action Learning Lab helps state and local leaders identify and impl...

The Climate Action Learning Lab Summit served as a culmination of three months of programming to build participants' skills and knowledge in evidence generation and use in the climate space.

PostAugust 22, 2025

Transforming boating, with solar power

A group of visitors sets off from the dock for a cruise around the Charles River. The Anita weighs about 2,800 pounds and can accommodate six passengers at a time.

PostAugust 11, 2025

Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels

“Our results show just how intricate the process of cost improvement is, and how much scientific and engineering advances, often at a very basic level, are at the heart of these cost reductions,” says Jessika Trancik.

PostJuly 28, 2025

Why animals are a critical part of forest carbon absorption

A great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) eats a fig in Royal Manas National Park, Bhutan. Hornbills are key long-distance seed dispersers in Asian tropical forests, but forest degradation, hunting, and wildlife trade threaten the ecological roles they play.

PodcastJuly 16, 2025

How energy systems are shaped

MIT Energy Initiative

PodcastJuly 10, 2025

E8: Transmission: power to the people

TILclimate Podcast

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