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PostSeptember 7, 2023

Harnessing hydrogen’s potential to address long-haul trucking emissions

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium
An MIT team has modified a transport truck’s powertrain to allow onboard hydrogen release from the liquid organic hydrogen carriers.
PostSeptember 6, 2023

Study suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2

MIT News
Researchers uncovered how carbon dioxide can be both captured and converted through a single electrochemical process in which an electrode, like the one pictured covered in bubbles, is used to attract carbon dioxide released from a sorbent and convert it into carbon neutral products.
PostSeptember 5, 2023

Uncovering how biomes respond to climate change

MIT News
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.
PostSeptember 5, 2023

3 Questions: How are cities managing record-setting temperatures?

MIT News
MIT Associate Professor David Hsu is an expert in city policies concerning climate change. Following record-setting heat in the summer of 2023, he describes what cities are now doing in response, and the possibilities for new policy measures.
PostAugust 30, 2023

Here’s what we know about hurricanes and climate change

MIT Technology Review
Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida in October 2022 as a Category 5 storm.
PostAugust 27, 2023

Explained: The 1.5 C climate benchmark

MIT News
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?
PostAugust 25, 2023

More homes mean more heat. Can new building codes help save metro Phoenix f...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Construction cranes in Phoenix on July 13, 2023, the 14th day in a row of temperatures 110 degrees or more.
PostAugust 23, 2023

Job titles of the future: Chief heat officer

MIT Technology Review
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PostAugust 23, 2023

Making aviation fuel from biomass

MIT Energy Initiative
Professor Yuriy Román-Leshkov and collaborators have demonstrated a new way to produce a critical component of aviation fuel from lignin, a plant material that’s generally discarded as waste during biomass processing.
PostAugust 17, 2023

Bianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries

MIT Spectrum
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