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  • Published on June 4, 2025 - 02:35 GMT

    Who will pay for climate-smart milk?

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Carolyn Beans was originally published in Lancaster Farming, where it appears with additional photos. It is part of a series of articles on climate-smart dairy.   Walk down the dairy aisle in many …

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  • Published on June 4, 2025 - 02:35 GMT

    Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sus...

    Hydrogen has the potential to be a climate-friendly fuel since it doesn’t release carbon dioxide when used as an energy source. Currently, however, most methods for producing hydrogen involve fossil fuels, making hydrogen less of a “green” fuel over its …

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  • Published on June 3, 2025 - 03:29 GMT

    AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study

    For weeks, the whiteboard in the lab was crowded with scribbles, diagrams, and chemical formulas. A research team across the Olivetti Group and the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) was working intensely on a key problem: How can we reduce the amount …

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  • Published on June 2, 2025 - 05:17 GMT

    Who owns most of the farmland in Illinois? Not farmers.

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Karina Atkins was originally published in the Chicago Tribune, where it appears with additional photos and resources. It is the first in a series of articles about Illinois' agricultural …

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  • Published on May 31, 2025 - 00:40 GMT

    A Test Bed for Sustainable Manufacturing

    “Class of 2025, are you ready?” This was the question Hashim Sarkis, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, posed to the graduating class at the school’s Advanced Degree Ceremony at Kresge Auditorium on May 29. The response was enthusiastic …

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  • Published on May 29, 2025 - 15:04 GMT

    E6: Dealing with dead batteries

    LHF: Hello, and welcome to Today I Learned: Climate, the climate change podcast from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I’m Laur Hesse Fisher. Today’s drivers are buying a lot more electric vehicles, or EVs as they’re also known. In fact, from just …

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  • Published on May 29, 2025 - 03:53 GMT

    Could measuring greenhouse gases increase returns on Pennsylvania dairies?

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Carolyn Beans was originally published in Lancaster Farming, where it appears with additional photos. It is part of a series of articles on climate-smart dairy.   Paul Mason of Mason’s Chrome View …

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  • Published on May 29, 2025 - 03:53 GMT

    Can Pennsylvania dairies profit from carbon markets?

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Carolyn Beans was originally published in Lancaster Farming, where it appears with additional photos. It is part of a series of articles on climate-smart dairy.   At Ar-Joy Farms in Cochranville, …

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  • Published on May 28, 2025 - 14:04 GMT

    MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaboration

    This semester, MIT D-Lab students built prototype solutions to help farmers in Afghanistan, people living in informal settlements in Argentina, and rural poultry farmers in Cameroon. The projects span continents and collectively stand to improve thousands …

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  • Published on May 28, 2025 - 03:47 GMT

    Shaping the future through systems thinking

    Long before she stepped into a lab, Ananda Santos Figueiredo was stargazing in Brazil, captivated by the cosmos and feeding her curiosity of science through pop culture, books, and the internet. She was drawn to astrophysics for its blend of visual wonder …

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  • Published on May 27, 2025 - 18:03 GMT

    New fuel cell could enable electric aviation

    David L. Chandler Batteries are nearing their limits in terms of how much power they can store for a given weight. That’s a serious obstacle for energy innovation and the search for new ways to power airplanes, trains, and ships. Now, researchers at MIT …

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  • Published on May 25, 2025 - 11:41 GMT

    Decarbonizing steel is tough as steel

    By Mark Dwortzan | MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy The long-term aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change is to cap global warming at 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and thereby reduce the frequency and severity of …

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  • Published on May 24, 2025 - 02:20 GMT

    Boston Business Journal

    Boston Business Journal reporter Eli Chavez spotlights Sublime Systems, an MIT startup “focused on low-carbon cement production.” “Sublime’s mission is to have a swift and massive impact measured in the amount of cement we produce and sell,” says CEO Leah …

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  • Published on May 23, 2025 - 04:40 GMT

    Can Michigan fix its food waste problem with composting?

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Nina Ignaczak was originally published in Planet Detroit, where it appears with additional photos and resources. It is the first in a series of articles that investigates how Michigan's food …

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  • Published on May 23, 2025 - 04:40 GMT

    Banana peels to coasters: Is this the future of food waste?

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Nina Ignaczak was originally published in Planet Detroit, where it appears with additional photos and resources. It is the second in a series of articles that investigates how Michigan's food …

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  • Published on May 23, 2025 - 04:40 GMT

    New landfill rules were supposed to cut methane. Michigan’s still falling...

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Nina Ignaczak was originally published in Planet Detroit, where it appears with additional photos and resources. It is the third in a series of articles that investigates how Michigan's food …

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  • Published on May 23, 2025 - 04:40 GMT

    A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy

    Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil is an energy-intensive process that accounts for about 6 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions. Most of that energy goes into the heat needed to separate the components by their …

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  • Published on May 22, 2025 - 18:00 GMT

    Pennsylvania dairy farmers consider return on climate-smart milk

    This story by MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow Carolyn Beans was originally published in Lancaster Farming, where it appears with additional photos. It is the first in a series of articles on climate-smart dairy.   At Mountain View Holsteins …

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  • Published on May 22, 2025 - 18:00 GMT

    A new technology for extending the shelf life of produce

    By Zach Winn | MIT News We’ve all felt the sting of guilt when fruit and vegetables go bad before we could eat them. Now, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have shown they can extend the shelf life of …

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  • Published on May 22, 2025 - 18:00 GMT

    Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regions

    Global warming will likely hinder our future ability to control ground-level ozone, a harmful air pollutant that is a primary component of smog, according to a new MIT study. The results could help scientists and policymakers develop more effective …

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