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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have further enhanced a transparent and conductive coating material by increasing its electrical conductivity by 10 ...
Researchers find car exhaust causes more premature deaths than car accidents. Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office.You can read the original new in MIT NewsIn a study appearing this month in the ...
Original story at MIT newsMIT study underscores need to examine trade-offs before choosing energy technologiesIn deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers ...
Study finds pledges by top greenhouse gas emitters leaves little room for others; urges greater R&D.Original story at MIT Over two weeks in December, delegates from virtually every country ...
New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at Earth Day colloquium. Written by Vicki Ekstrom.You can read the original new in MIT NewsUsing new ways to confront ...
If we double the Earth’s greenhouse gases, how much will the temperature change? That’s what this number tells you.
This is the second part of an “Explained” on climate change. Part one dealt with radiative forcing.
Climate sensitivity is the term used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to express the relationship between the human-caused emissions that add to the Earth’s greenhouse effect — carbon dioxide and a variety of other greenhouse gases — and the temperature changes that will...
Many architects dream of being given a `tabula rasa` -- a blank slate -- upon which they could let the imagination soar when designing a home, building or other project.
A team led by MIT architects Alexander D`Hooghe and Nader Tehrani are working on what could be the largest blank slate in the history of construction.
This summer, the MIT team was among the winners of an Urban Design Institute of Korea-sponsored contest to design a mammoth landfill project on South Korea`s western coast -- a 401 square kilometer...
Karplus, Paltsev honored for their study on the impacts of vehicle efficiency standards. Written by Valerie Karplus and Sergey Paltsev.You can read the original story in MIT NewsValerie Karplus PhD ’11, research scientist, and Sergey Paltsev, assistant director for economic research, both of MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, were awarded the 2012 Pyke Johnson Award for their study on vehicle efficiency standards. The award, presented to the co-authors last night at the national...
Original story at MIT news.
Despite global treaties and national regulations limiting toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), many of these chemicals still remain in the environment for long periods of time and accumulate in our land, water and air. These chemicals —which reach remote regions of the globe, such as the Arctic, through air currents — have dangerous effects on humans and animals. Warming of the atmosphere and changing patterns of wind and rain, due to climate...
In the middle of a day filled with a stream of information-packed PowerPoint displays and alarming projections of what the future holds for our planet and our civilization, Judith Layzer’s talk was something of an anomaly.
Layzer, an assistant professor of environmental policy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, was among the speakers at last Friday’s daylong symposium on “Engineering a Cooler Earth.” She immediately changed the tone of the day’s presentations by dispensing with graphs and charts...
