Environment

An MIT project aimed at monitoring owls in their natural environment is growing into an international collaboration on how to use widespread networks of citizen-scientists to gain new insights into a wide variety of species.

Call of the wild

MIT project aims to understand owls and other wildlife

August 22, 2008

Understanding climate change complacency

Sloan's Sterman sees flawed reasoning at root of problem

August 20, 2008

MIT honored for green initiatives

Named one of Kaplan's top 25 environmentally friendly schools

August 6, 2008

The Federal Creosote Superfund site in New Jersey during 2002 cleanup efforts.

Superfund may not be so super

Cleanups don't seem to be worth the cost, according to MIT study

August 5, 2008

MIT graduate students are working on a thermoelectric system that could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient.

MIT students seek to harness waste heat

Device could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient

July 24, 2008

MIT graduate student Tijs Van Maasakkers, right, examines one of the water lines near Durban, South Africa.

MIT students help cities plan for changing climate

South Africa trip prompts work on online tool with global application

July 22, 2008

MIT expert: Don't count on long-term success in climate policy

Says policy-making requires ambitious short-term goals

July 11, 2008

Flexible design in airports essential for courting low-cost airlines

June 18, 2008

Matt Ritter, Doug Wood, Spencer Ahrens and Micah Sze mount one of the 10-inch by 12-foot mirror panels in place.

MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests

Low-cost system could revolutionize global energy production

June 18, 2008

Diagram shows the structure of a histidine kinase (blue ribbons) and its target response regulator (green ribbons). The specificity of the interaction between the two proteins is primarily determined by the orange and red amino acid residues.

MIT researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways

June 12, 2008

MIT analysts say European system for cutting CO2 emissions is working well

Lessons to be learned for U.S., globe

June 10, 2008

Forum examines cities and climate change

June 10, 2008

MIT researchers are designing sensors that use carbon nanotubes, shown here in middle and at top, to detect hazardous gases.

Super-sensitive and small: New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases

June 5, 2008

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering head Professor Patrick Jaillet congratulates Jose Alberto Ortega on winning the Maseeh Award for excellence as a teaching assistant. The graduate student from Cuenca, Ecuador, was nominated by the faculty and students he assisted in 1.050 Engineering Mechanics I.

Civil & Environmental Engineering awards

June 4, 2008

Tao Laoban works at cleaning one of the concrete solar cookers used in Tibet. A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

Harnessing the Tibetan sun

Student project aims to reduce deforestation and lung disease