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PostSeptember 17, 2021

Research collaboration puts climate-resilient crops in sight

The Des Marais Lab at MIT uses the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon to understand plant-environment interaction. Here, replicate plants are receiving two different levels of soil water availability to study genetic differences in response to drying.

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.

PostAugust 18, 2021

How the world already prevented far worse warming this century

MIT Technology Review

PostAugust 11, 2021

Global warming begets more warming, new paleoclimate study finds

Global warming begets more, extreme warming, a new MIT paleoclimate study finds.

PostAugust 6, 2021

New global map shows populations are growing faster in flood-prone areas

MIT Technology Review

Dhaka, Bangladesh has experienced some of the largest increases in flood exposure, according to a new global flood mapping project.

PostJuly 27, 2021

The pandemic slashed the West Coast’s emissions. Wildfires already revers...

MIT Technology Review

Firefighters battle the Bond Fire in Southern California late last year.

PostJuly 21, 2021

Cities are scrambling to prevent flooding

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Abandoned cars are flooded with water after a 2014 storm in Detroit.

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