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Under its “Fast Forward” climate action plan, MIT has set a goal of eliminating direct emissions from its campus by 2050 and a near-term milestone of achieving net-zero emissions by 2026. Image: Gretchen Ertl
Image: Gretchen Ertl
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MIT accelerates efforts on path to carbon reduction goals

The “Fast Forward” climate action plan laid out ambitious commitments. Now comes the harder part: making them happen.

Researchers have found an effective new method for removing carbon dioxide from the ocean. It could be implemented by ships that would process seawater as they travel, or at offshore drilling platforms or aquaculture fish farms. ...
How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater

A new method for removing the greenhouse gas from the ocean could be far more efficient than existing systems for removing it from the air.

Left to right: Graduate student Chuwei Zhang, Assistant Professor Sili Deng, graduate student Maanasa Bhat, and postdoc Jianan Zhang stand behind the lab-scale apparatus they use to investigate a low-cost method of synthesizin...
Using combustion to make better batteries

An MIT team is working to harness combustion to yield valuable materials, including some that are critical in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.

For his LGO internship in management and nuclear science and engineering, Santiago Andrade worked at Caterpillar in Lafayette, Indiana, where he helped the company explore the potential use of nuclear microreactors to power minin...
Preparing students for the new nuclear

MIT Leaders for Global Operations’ collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering trains leaders for a rapidly evolving industry.

Featured video: Investigating our blue ocean planet

Since 1968, the MIT-WHOI Joint Program has provided research and educational opportunities for PhD students seeking to explore the marine world.

To determine the greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, MIT senior Sylas Horowitz has been developing a high-performance, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that can collect water samples from beneath a sheet of Arctic ice...
Responsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future

Senior Sylas Horowitz tackles engineering projects with a focus on challenges related to clean energy, climate justice, and sustainable development.

Alexis Hocken is an MIT PhD candidate in chemical engineering, working in the lab of Brad Olsen. Image: Melanie Gonick, MIT
Rescuing small plastics from the waste stream

PhD student Alexis Hocken is working with manufacturers to keep their products from (literally) falling through the cracks in the recycling process.

The 2022 Solver Class in New York City during the Solve Challenge Finals. These innovators will join us on MIT’s campus in May. Photo courtesy of MIT Solve.
MIT Solve announces 2023 global challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship

More than $1 million in funding available to selected Solver teams and fellows.

Maria Risueño Dominguez SM '22 demonstrates the adaptability of her furniture system at the opening of the “The Next 150 Year Chair” exhibit. Photo: Maria Iacobo
Blue-sky thinking and the next 150-year chair

MIT students studying advanced product design explored sustainable chair manufacturing and showed their work in a community exhibition space in Venice, California.

Electrification powered by low-carbon sources should be considered more broadly as a viable decarbonization pathway for the chemical industry, argue researchers. Photo: David Arrowsmith/Unsplash
To decarbonize the chemical industry, electrify it

Researchers urge industry and the research community to explore electrification pathways to reduce chemical industry emissions.