Scientists observe reduction in emissions of banned ozone-depleting chemical after unexpected spike By Jennifer Chu | CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(MIT News office) -- A potent ozone-depleting chemical whose emissions unexpectedly spiked in recent years has quickly dropped back…
Sea level will rise faster than previously thought
MUNICH— There are two main elements to observe when assessing sea-level rise. One is the loss of the ice on land, e.g., melting mountain glaciers and inland ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, and the other…
MIT convenes influential industry leaders in the fight against climate change
By Lori LoTurco CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MIT) -- The MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) convenes an alliance of leaders from a broad range of industries and aims to vastly accelerate large-scale, real-world implementation of solutions to address the…
Mitigating Climate Change: It Starts With Better Ocean Data
BY Ayesha Renyard Glaciar Perito Moreno, El Calafate, Argentina For many years, the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere.…
Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MIT News) -- It takes a lot to make a wooden table. Grow a tree, cut it down, transport it, mill it … you get the point. It’s a decades-long process. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García…