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A satellite image shows Cyclone Kenneth approaching Mozambique on April 25, 2019.Image: NASA

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May 1, 2019

Study: For low-income countries, climate action pays off by 2050

Economic benefits of mitigation arrive much sooner than previously thought.

Kate Trimble (left), associate dean and senior director of the PKG Center, poses with the founders of Myco Diagnostics, (from left to right) Nhat Nguyen, Aditi Trehan, and Eric Miller.Credit: Rose Lincoln

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April 30, 2019

IDEAS challenge showcases social ventures at MIT

Ten student teams receive $100,000 in combined awards to pursue their impact-driven projects.

Symbrosia co-founder and CEO Alexia Akbay, second from left, and co-founder and CTO Jonathan Simonds, fourth from right, pose with members of MIT’s Water Club following the MIT Water Innovation Prize Thursday.Credit: Zach Winn

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April 23, 2019

Water Innovation Prize goes to startups targeting methane and wastewater

Student-led startups Symbrosia and SiPure each awarded a $14,000 grand prize.

April 22, 2019

MIT earns STARS Gold rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements

Kenya Water Resources Management Authority workers build a water quality monitoring station on the Mwache River.Photo courtesy of the Mwache Dam Project

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April 22, 2019

Designing water infrastructure for climate uncertainty

A new method identifies opportunities to learn and adapt to changing temperature and precipitation trends.

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April 22, 2019

Letter regarding MIT's upcoming climate change symposia

Audrey Buyrn (left) congratulates Raffaele Ferrari on his MIT School of Science Ally of Nature Fund Award.Photo: Lauren Hinkel

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April 19, 2019

A steward for ocean research and climate health

Raffaele Ferrari honored with School of Science Ally of Nature Fund Award.

RoCycle can detect if an object is paper, metal, or plastic. CSAIL researchers say that such a system could potentially help enable the convenience of single-stream recycling with lower contamination rates that confirm to China's new recyclin...

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April 16, 2019

Robots that can sort recycling

CSAIL’s "RoCycle" system uses in-hand sensors to detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic.

The economist Lord Nicholas Stern delivers the MIT Undergraduate Economics Association’s annual lecture, on climate economics, at MIT on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.Image: Chelsea Turner

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April 11, 2019

Climate expert emphasizes the fierce urgency of now

In MIT talk, Lord Nicholas Stern calls the next 20 years “absolutely defining” for society.

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