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PostSeptember 27, 2023

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water...

A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir.

PostSeptember 27, 2023

Improving US air quality, equitably

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

The power sector, which is the main target of current U.S. carbon emissions-reduction policies, contributes to national PM2.5-related exposure, but other sectors, such as industry and heavy-duty diesel transportation, can be a larger influence on exposure disparities.

PostSeptember 19, 2023

Economic Implications of the Climate Provisions of the Inflation Reduction ...

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

PostSeptember 19, 2023

How to tackle the global deforestation crisis

Economists Ben Olken of MIT and Claire Balboni are authors of a new review paper examining the “revolution” in the study of deforestation brought about by satellites, and analyzing which kinds of policies might limit climate-altering deforestation. Pictured is deforestation occurring in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

PostSeptember 13, 2023

Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries

By mining X-ray images, MIT researchers have made significant new discoveries about the reactivity of lithium iron phosphate, a material used in batteries for electric cars and in other rechargeable batteries. In each pair pictured, actual particles are on the left and the researchers’ simulations are on the right.

PostSeptember 6, 2023

Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost

MIT Technology Review

Manufacturing at Eos Energy

PostSeptember 5, 2023

Uncovering how biomes respond to climate change

Leila Mirzagholi, an MIT postdoc in civil and environmental engineering, applies her physics and mathematical background to her research in evaluating the impact climate change has on our global terrestrial carbon cycle.

PostAugust 29, 2023

New clean air and water labs to bring together researchers, policymakers to...

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

Africa, MENA, and South Asia are on the front lines of global air and water crises.

PostAugust 29, 2023

Ms. Nuclear Energy is winning over nuclear skeptics

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Kaylee Cunningham, “Ms. Nuclear Energy” on TikTok, is committed to dispelling myths about nuclear energy.

PostAugust 27, 2023

Explained: The 1.5 C climate benchmark

To prevent worsening and potentially irreversible effects of climate change, the world’s average temperature should not exceed that of preindustrial times by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). By why 1.5 degrees Celsius?

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