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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

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 12, 2023

This startup plans to power a tugboat with ammonia later this year

MIT Technology Review

Young Suk Jo, co-founder of Amogy

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

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

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 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.

PodcastAugust 16, 2023

America's big year of climate action

TILclimate Podcast

PostAugust 11, 2023

The US just invested more than $1 billion in carbon removal

MIT Technology Review

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm

PostAugust 10, 2023

3 Questions: Boosting concrete’s ability to serve as a natural “carbon ...

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

New research finds up to 15 percent of cement (by weight) could be substituted with sodium bicarbonate without compromising the mechanical performance of a given mix.

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