Faculty highlight: Elsa Olivetti
Assistant Professor Elsa Olivetti combines cost and environmental data to identify high-impact areas for reducing pollution and greenhouse gases.
Bubbling with passion for environmental engineering
A witness to “a montage of environmental changes” in her native China, grad student Ruby Fu now studies the fate of methane bubbles in the ocean.
Better traffic signals can cut greenhouse gas emissions
Analysis shows that smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic.
Sequestration on shaky ground
Study finds a natural impediment to the long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide.
Voices of MIT at the People’s Climate March
Some 70 MIT students, researchers, and alumni marched in the largest climate rally in history.
Little-studied manmade gases have big warming potential
MIT researchers, as part of an international team, examine the total warming impact of 25 major synthetic greenhouse gases.
Uncovering the Costs of Climate Mitigation
MIT investigators search for the most informative methods to measure the costs of mitigating climate change.
El Niño cycle has a big effect on a major greenhouse gas
Nitrous oxide emissions decrease during El Niño, increase during La Niña.
Future of solar geoengineering far from settled
MIT event brings together geoengineering experts to debate the use of solar radiation management for preventing climate change.
A concrete response to Obama's climate change plan
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub works to meet Climate Action Plan goals
Bigger storms ahead
With global warming, a study finds, tropical cyclones may become more frequent and intense.
Footwear’s (carbon) footprint
Study finds the bulk of shoes’ carbon footprint comes from manufacturing processes.
One order of steel; hold the greenhouse gases
Steelmaking, a major emitter of climate-altering gases, could be transformed by a new process developed at MIT.
At MIT, Gov. Deval Patrick highlights clean-energy achievements
Earth Day talk details Massachusetts’ accomplishments since the governor’s MIT speech five years ago, and outlines new goals.