Cleaner air, longer lives
Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol.
Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol.
MIT’s Janelle Knox-Hayes studies the cultural issues behind climate policy.
Two-day summit on climate leadership in northeastern North America draws almost 200 to MIT.
At an Environmental Solutions Initiative event, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse speaks about defending science and moving forward on climate action.
Plans are in place to meet or exceed greenhouse gas reduction targets.
MIT researchers are working with the Mexican government on carbon pricing options to meet the country’s climate goals under the Paris Agreement.
Study finds state’s annual risk of extreme rainfall will rise from 1 to 18 percent.
System could pore through millions of research papers to extract “recipes” for producing materials.
Energy-efficient construction is key to lowering urban emissions, study finds.
Adding bits of irradiated plastic water bottles could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions.
Atmospheric chemist takes on pollutants and the global treaties written to control them.
Approach developed at MIT could help curb needless “flaring” of potent greenhouse gas.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering awards cross-disciplinary seed funds.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering welcomes plant ecologist Dave Des Marais to the MIT faculty.