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MIT Plans in Place to Meet Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets

MIT has been forging ahead on strategies to implement the Institute's Plan for Action on Climate Change, which was adopted in 2015.

1 Dec 2017

U.S. Senator Speaks About America’s Climate Change at MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) spoke at MIT on Nov. 20 about efforts to deny the legitimacy of climate science and how such misinformation can be combated.

24 Nov 2017

U of T Researchers Develop Innovative Catalyst for Simulating Photosynthesis

Scientists from U of T Engineering have now reached close to achieving artificial photosynthesis, where similar to plants, renewable energy is used to transform carbon dioxide, or CO2, into stored chemical energy. They achieved this by developing an innovative catalyst.

21 Nov 2017

New 'Supercatalyst' Developed to Recycle Methane and Carbon Dioxide

A new and cost-effective catalyst has been developed by the University of Surrey to recycle two main causes of climate change - methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2).

20 Nov 2017

Study Reveals Shortening of Oceanic Food Chain Due to Environmental Disturbances

An innovative study has demonstrated that environmental changes such as El Niño disturb the marine food chain at Southern California. This finding is contrast to traditional notion that the hierarchy of food chain in the ocean is mostly unaltered as time passes.

20 Oct 2017

Stanford Study Reveals Soil has Potential to Slow Global Warming

According to Stanford researchers if the soil under our feet is managed well, it has the ability to trap carbon dioxide to a greater extent than previously estimated, and control global warming.

6 Oct 2017

A Combination of Sunlight and Microbes Convert Arctic Carbon into Carbon Dioxide

Almost half of the organic carbon stored in soil globally is contained in Arctic permafrost, which has undergone rapid melting, and that organic material could be changed to greenhouse gases that would worsen global warming.

5 Oct 2017

Beijing’s Harmful Haze Not Caused by Ammonia Emissions

As China grapples to discover ways to remedy the harmful haze that hangs over Beijing and other cities in the winter, researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have raised a serious doubt on one projected cause: high quantities of ammonia in the air.

4 Oct 2017

Warming Climate Results in Increased Impact on Urban Heat Islands

The warming climate has resulted in an increased impact on urban heat islands – built-up areas where buildings, roofs and paved surfaces temperatures can be hotter than the air itself.

27 Sep 2017

MIT Professor Explains How Climate Change Could Lead to Increase in Storm Strength

In a detailed talk about the history and the underlying physics of hurricanes and tropical cyclones, MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel yesterday explained why climate change will cause such storms to become much stronger and reach peak intensity further north, heightening their potential impacts on human lives in coming years.

22 Sep 2017