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A new downscaling method used in climate models leverages machine learning to improve resolution at finer scales. By making these simulations more relevant to local areas, policy makers have better access to information informing climate action.
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June 11, 2024

Making climate models relevant for local decision-makers

A new downscaling method leverages machine learning to speed up climate model simulations at finer resolutions, making them usable on local levels.
MIT graduate students Eunice Aissi, left, and Alexander Siemenn, have developed a technique that automatically analyzes visual features in printed samples (pictured) to quickly determine key properties of new and promising semiconducting materials.
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June 11, 2024

New computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials

The technique characterizes a material’s electronic properties 85 times faster than conventional methods.
The class brought together undergraduate and graduate students from across the Institute to learn about different technologies and decide on the best path forward.
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June 7, 2024

Students research pathways for MIT to reach decarbonization goals

A class this semester challenged students to evaluate technologies to help MIT decarbonize — with implications for organizations across the globe.
Namrata Kala, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, often studies environmental problems and their effects on workers and firms.
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June 7, 2024

Improving working environments amid environmental distress

Namrata Kala’s wide-ranging research shows how climate change and other factors affect companies and their employees.
Based on a series of analytical studies, MIT chemical engineers have come up with an idea that would enable long-haul trucks to use clean-burning hydrogen in place of diesel fuel, thereby reducing their carbon emissions. Left to right: Sayandeep Biswas, William Green, and Kariana Moreno Sader are now building an experiment to test and fine-tune equipment key to their promising approach.
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June 5, 2024

Reducing carbon emissions from long-haul trucks

MIT researchers show a promising plan for using clean-burning hydrogen in place of the diesel fuel now used in most freight-transport trucks.
A glacier flows into a fjord in the southwest coast of Greenland.
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May 30, 2024

Microscopic defects in ice influence how massive glaciers flow, study shows

The findings should help scientists refine predictions of future sea-level rise.
World Resource Institute President and CEO Ani Dasgupta stressed that systemic change is needed to bring carbon emissions in line with long-term climate goals. "It’s not one thing that needs to change,” he said. “The whole system needs to change.”
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May 29, 2024

Getting to systemic sustainability

At the 2024 Earth Day Colloquium, World Resource Institute President and CEO Ani Dasgupta says systemic changes in a handful of countries will be critical to meeting global emissions goals.
Maja Hoffmann (left), founder and president of the LUMA Foundation, and Hashim Sarkis, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, at LUMA Arles in the Parc des Ateliers in France. This 27-acre interdisciplinary campus is an experimental site of exhibitions, artists’ residencies, research laboratories, and educational programs that includes The Tower, a multipurpose space designed by Frank Gehry, seen here amid 19th-century factory buildings.
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May 29, 2024

New MIT-LUMA Lab created to address climate challenges in the Mediterranean region

Collaborative scholarship and research will draw on conservation, design, and technology.
An urban studies and planning major with minors in anthropology and biology, Cindy Xie is also earning her master’s degree in city planning in a dual degree program.
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May 28, 2024

Convening for cultural change

At MIT and internationally, senior Cindy Xie works to bring people together for the health of humanity and the planet.

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