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Consortium led by MIT, Harvard University, and Mass General Brigham spurs development of 408 MW of renewable energy

Projects in Texas and North Dakota support clean energy transition as MIT moves closer to 2026 net-zero goal.

Among his other leadership roles on campus, Robert van der Hilst most recently served as co-chair of the faculty review committee for MIT’s Climate Grand Challenges in which EAPS researchers secured nine finalists and two, funde...
Robert van der Hilst to step down as head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Professor led EAPS for more than a decade, cultivating a focus on Earth systems, planets, climate science, and the origins of life.

Assembled participants of the national conference of women artisanal miners in Medellin, Colombia. Photo: Fabio Bayona
MIT D-Lab works to empower artisanal women miners in Colombia

Through a project launched in 2020, MIT D-Lab is working with women to help them build a labor movement focused on reducing gender-based violence and environmental degradation.

MIT Associate Professor Megan Black is an environmental historian who studies the politics of resource extraction, breaking new ground in detailing U.S. government involvement in mining. Credit: Jake Belcher
History from the ground up

Associate Professor Megan Black’s research digs into mining, power, and environmental politics in the US.

Vice Provost Anne White (left) presented a keynote on the role of the research university before joining MITEI Interim Director Robert Stoner to address audience questions. Photo: Kelley Travers
How to decarbonize the world, at scale

The MIT Energy Initiative’s Annual Research Conference highlights strategies for implementing large-scale reductions in the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Andres Rico Medina (left), a PhD student the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab, meets with Eva, a community leader in Guadalajara, to install and test sensors. Photo courtesy of Andres Rico/City Science/MIT Medi...
The City Science Network empowers local communities to collaborate globally

Led by the Media Lab’s City Science research group, the CSN is a collaboration of institutions and researchers sharing a common goal of enabling more livable, equitable, and resilient communities…

MIT graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is working on sustainable solutions in vehicle design, including a hydrogen-powered motorcycle. Photo: Gretchen Ertl
Designing cleaner vehicles

Graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is developing sustainable solutions in vehicle design.

Photo: Dominick Reuter
Forging climate connections across the Institute

Inaugural Fast Forward Faculty Fund grants aim to spur new work on climate change and deepen collaboration at MIT.

The startup Noya, founded by Josh Santos ’14, is working to accelerate direct air carbon removal with a low-power, modular system that can be mass manufactured and deployed around the world. Image: Courtesy of Noya
MIT startup has big plans to pull carbon from the air

Noya has developed low-power, modular units that can be combined to create facilities for removing millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.

The electrolyzer that converts bicarbonate into formate. Image: Shuhan Miao, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide

The approach directly converts the greenhouse gas into formate, a solid fuel that can be stored indefinitely and could be used to heat homes or power industries.