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…
Some bird species change their reproductive behaviours in response to noise and light pollution, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The findings raise new questions about how responses to sensory stimuli, like noise…
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…
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…
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.…
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…