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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 17, 2021

MIT appoints members of new faculty committee to drive climate action plan

MIT has appointed more than a dozen faculty to its new Climate Nucleus, a committee established by the Institute’s “Fast Forward” climate action plan. The committee will be co-chaired by professors Noelle Selin, left, and Anne White.

PostAugust 24, 2021

Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

MIT now offers over 120 undergraduate classes related to climate change and sustainability, according to the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative — a sign of growing student and faculty interest in the environmental impacts of their fields.

PostAugust 12, 2021

MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge

The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team with Nimbus after winning the American Solar Challenge

PostAugust 11, 2021

Elsa Olivetti wins 2021 MIT Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching

Associate Professor Elsa Olivetti's passion for addressing issues related to climate change frames the focus of her research, which centers on improving the environmental and economic sustainability of materials in the context of growing global demand.

PostAugust 10, 2021

Chemistry Undergraduate Teaching Lab hibernates fume hoods, drastically red...

Fume hoods like these are placed into hibernation mode when they are no longer in use for the day. Since employing the use of hibernation mode, the unoccupied Undergraduate Teaching Lab air change rate has plummeted from 11 air changes per hour to seven ACH, drastically shrinking unnecessary energy outflow, saving MIT an estimated $21,000 per year.

PostAugust 10, 2021

Letter to the MIT Community: Global climate disruption and the MIT communit...

MIT Climate Action

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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 16, 2021

MIT.nano receives American Institute of Architects’s Top Ten Award for su...

MIT.nano, MIT’s 216,000-square-foot, shared-access facility for nanoscience and nanotechnology research, has been awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2021 Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Award for excellence in sustainability and design.

PostJuly 13, 2021

Webinar on MACA Roadmap - A Tool for Advocacy and Engagement

MIT Alumni for Climate Action

Jeremy Grace '83

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