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PostOctober 7, 2021

New “risk triage” platform pinpoints compounding threats to US infrastr...

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

As climate change amplifies the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other extreme events in the United States and around the world, and the populations and economies they threaten grow and change, there is a critical need to make infrastructure more resilient. A new "risk triage" platform developed by the MIT Joint Program could help decision-makers to take action to mitigate and adapt to multiple, compounding risks that face the nation.(Source: Severe Weather Europe)

PostSeptember 28, 2021

Making roadway spending more sustainable

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Researchers at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub have found that several strategies can cut pavement emissions by 20 percent.

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 15, 2021

3 Questions: Daniel Cohn on the benefits of high-efficiency, flexible-fuel ...

MIT Energy Initiative

Daniel Cohn (left) and Leslie Bromberg have been developing a highly efficient, gasoline-ethanol engine that could help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and effectively in the heavy-duty trucking sector.

PostSeptember 10, 2021

Policies for Electrifying the Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet in the United States...

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

PostSeptember 7, 2021

Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemica...

This diagram illustrates the new process for enhancing reaction rates in an electrocatalytic process. The catalyst layer, made of gold or platinum, is shown as gray spheres at the bottom, and the material to be catalyzed is shown as the rad spheres at the top. Adding a layer of ionic liquid in between, shown as the hexagonal lattices, can increase reaction rates by fivefold. At left, a detail of how oxygen (red) and hydrogen (green) can combine to form water at an enhanced rate through this process.

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.

PostAugust 31, 2021

Making the case for hydrogen in a zero-carbon economy

MIT Energy Initiative

MIT researchers find that hydrogen-fired power generation can be a more cost-effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries for peaking operations on a power grid.

PostAugust 17, 2021

Smarter regulation of global shipping emissions could improve air quality a...

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

The main source of shipping emissions is the combustion of heavy fuel oil in large diesel engines, which disperses pollutants into the air over coastal areas.

PostAugust 16, 2021

Energy storage from a chemistry perspective

PolyJoule is a Massachusetts-based startup co-founded by MIT professors Ian Hunter and Tim Swager, that’s looking to reinvent energy storage from a chemistry perspective.

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