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PostMay 14, 2021

Crowdsourcing data on road quality and excess fuel consumption

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

PhD candidate Meshkat Botshekan is one of the developers of Carbin, an app that allows users to crowdsource road-quality data with their smartphones.

PostMay 13, 2021

MITx Course Materials: Sustainable Energy

MIT Open Learning

PostApril 29, 2021

China’s transition to electric vehicles

MIT Energy Initiative

“The benefits appear to be the same order of magnitude as the costs,” says I-Yun Lisa Hsieh PhD ’20 of China’s transition to electric vehicles. “It’s so close that we need to be careful to get the numbers right.”

PostApril 5, 2021

Negative emissions, positive economy

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

The BECCS supply chain: biomass cultivation and harvest (left), biomass energy use (center) and CO2 storage (right). (Source: Carbon Brief)

PostMarch 29, 2021

Powering the energy transition with better storage

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Exploring different scenarios and variables in the storage design space, researchers find the parameter combinations for innovative, low-cost long-duration energy storage to potentially make a large impact in a more affordable and reliable energy transition.

PostMarch 10, 2021

3 Questions: Richard Samuels on Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster and its impa...

“Social science teaches that great and unexpected shocks can stimulate great and unexpected social and political change,” says Professor Richard Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies. “But what I found was that even an event as cataclysmic as 3.11 did not change the policy preferences of Japan’s leaders.”

PostJanuary 14, 2021

Concept for a hybrid-electric plane may reduce aviation’s air pollution p...

A proposed hybrid-electric plane could “eliminate aviation’s air pollution problem,” say MIT engineers.

PostDecember 31, 2020

Aerosols from pollution, desert storms, and forest fires may intensify thun...

MIT scientists have discovered a new mechanism by which aerosols may intensify thunderstorms in tropical regions.

PostDecember 11, 2020

Case studies show climate variation linked to rise and fall of medieval nom...

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

In the grassland steppes of Inner Asia, climate has a major impact on plant growth. Pastoral economies, which depend on grazing livestock like horse and sheep, are affected in turn.

PostNovember 1, 2020

COMMENTARY: Multiple extreme climate events can combine to produce catastro...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: Napa Valley vineyards engulfed by wildfire during extreme heat and severe drought.(Source: Yale Climate Connections)

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