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MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Articles
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Researchers Improve Electrical Conductivity of Conductive Coating Materials
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have further enhanced a transparent and conductive coating material by increasing its electrical conductivity by 10 times. Illustration shows the apparatus used to create a ...
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Climate change to worsen drought, diminish corn yields in Africa
Original story at MIT News Nearly 25 percent of the world’s malnourished population lives in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 300 million people depend on corn, or maize, as their main food source. Maize is the most widely harvested ...
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Making India`s waste streams sustainable
MIT researchers are developing a decision-support tool to help cities in India sustainably manage the societal and environmental impacts of their waste. The massive Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai has become the most visible emblem of an ...
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The geography of carbon pricing
Study looks at why some states could be impacted more than others if a price is put on carbon. Original story at MIT News How much will your cost of living rise if a price is put on carbon? According to a new study inThe Energy ...
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Desalination gets a graphene boost
Original story at MIT News Jeffrey Grossman applies new materials research to making desalination cheaper and more efficient. With the intensifying drought in California, the state has accelerated the construction of desalination plants. Yet due ...
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A “fair and ambitious” pledge? Not quite
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 in the world will gather in Paris for the 21st ...
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Messing with the monsoon: Study: Manmade aerosols can alter rainfall in the world’s most populous region
Original story at MIT On the Indian subcontinent, the widespread burning of firewood, coal, agricultural waste, and biomass for energy disperses black carbon particulates into the atmosphere. These manmade aerosols not only pollute the air, ...
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3 Questions: Amanda Giang on controlling Mercury Pollution in India and China
Original story at MIT News MIT graduate student studies how a new U.N. treaty could affect mercury emissions from coal power plants in Asia. The Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global treaty adopted by the United Nations in 2013, aims to reduce ...
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Catching air - Jimmy Gasore is working on Africa’s first high-frequency climate observatory in his native Rwanda.
Original story at MIT News All around the planet, high-frequency climate observatories are collecting atmospheric data around the clock as part of the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), a 35-year-old project to study emissions ...
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3 Questions: The launch of the MIT Climate Change Conversation
Original story at MIT News New committee aims to catalyze community discussion on how MIT can help address climate change. On Sept. 19, Maria T. Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research, announced the membership of ...
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3 Questions: Michael Greenstone on the Experimental Method in Environmental Economics
Original story at MIT News MIT economist makes the case for new quasi-experiments as a way of studying environmental issues. How can scholars get traction on environmental problems, particularly those relating to pollution? In an essay ...
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Water, water everywhere: But is there enough to drink?
Original story at MIT News At MIT, experts address the challenges of supplying clean, safe water to a growing world population. The challenge of supplying clean, safe drinking water to an expanding world population comes down to money, MIT ...
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How do we balance needs of energy, water, and climate?
Original story at MIT news MIT study underscores need to examine trade-offs before choosing energy technologies In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. ...
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Will the new global mercury treaty be effective?
Original story at MIT News MIT researcher Noelle Selin assesses the challenges of implementing the first global mercury treaty. After four years of negotiations, delegates from more than 140 countries met last January to finalize the first global ...
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Making ‘nanospinning’ practical
Nanofibers have a dizzying range of possible applications, but they’ve been prohibitively expensive to make. MIT researchers hope to change that. Written by Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office. Nanofibers — strands of material only a couple ...
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Clearing the air
Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon finds hope in past environmental challenges. Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office. You can read the original story in MIT News Susan Solomon, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and ...
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Reaching underground resources
Accessing critical resources such as geothermal energy and natural gas requires drilling — an expensive, energy-intensive, messy process with today`s technology. An MIT team has been looking into a more elegant approach. Instead of grinding ...
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Lead from gasoline discovered in Indian Ocean
Levels began to climb in the 1970s, peaking a decade ago — a timeline consistent with the region’s pattern of leaded gasoline use. Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office.You can read the original new in MIT NewsSince the 1970s, leaded gasoline ...
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MIT community takes the Earth Day Challenge
Take Action! Earn Points! Win Prizes! Written by Rachael Budowle, MIT Sustainability Program.You can read the original new in MIT NewsEarth Day has been reinvented at MIT. The Institute has a long history of Earth Day fairs, film series, colloquia, ...
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Oxygen-separation membranes could aid in CO2 reduction
Ceramic membranes may reduce carbon dioxide emissions from gas and coal-fired powerplants. Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office.You can read the original new in MIT NewsIt may seem counterintuitive, but one way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions ...