By pressurizing wind tunnels, researchers were able to simulate field conditions at wind farms, helping to validate predictive models and identify ways to get more power from existing wind farms.

Brazil will chair a new body in an ambitious effort to align the world’s fragmented carbon markets – despite its own not launching until 2030.

Brazil will chair a new body in an ambitious effort to align the world’s fragmented carbon markets – despite its own not launching until 2030.

MIT researchers are translating climate science into actionable tools for extreme weather preparedness. The Climate Grand Challenges project has produced papers, digital tools, and datasets to help pl...

MIT Professor Haruko Wainwright describes why she believes an expansion of the nuclear power sector in the United States will benefit the environment, despite the fact that a solution to the permanent...

Steel, cement, aluminum, and fertilizer sit behind a fifth of global emissions, and a carbon price floor could raise $200 billion a year.

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A new study projects how people’s access to food, water, and energy may change in the future, in response to many different variables. In many regions, people in lower-income groups will likely face e...

“Electric vehicle owners create a real problem for transportation finance,” write Christopher Knittel and Gilbert E. Metcalf. “Because they do not buy gasoline, they do not pay gasoline taxes, which h...

MIT Sloan School of Management researchers find that AI’s biggest climate threat isn’t the power draw of data centers — it’s the economic growth AI unleashes.

Five international teams will bridge abstract global climate models to the realities of grids, cities, farms, factories and communities Media Contact: Carlie Wiener, cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YO...

The location of new energy projects will play a significant role in meeting future demand in a changing climate, MIT researchers report. They created a way to make more climate-informed decisions abou...

Ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole, MIT scientists have found. Using modern tools, they also determined that carbon tetrachloride, a common dry-cleaning and degreasing agent,...

A new study shows that if data centers move a significant portion of their energy consumption to non-peak hours, it could help lower average energy costs in the U.S. The environmental impact of these ...

A summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from July 2025 to June 2026.

MIT research is transforming energy, health, food, and America's competitive edge. Explore the stories of scientists whose curiosity is changing the world.

Inside the demise of a 15-year-old modeling scenario built off the worst possibilities scientists could imagine.

Strong and consistent evidence shows that the entire climate system is continuing to heat, driving rapid global warming.

The 1.5°C climate threshold was crossed in 2024. A WMO report confirms it will happen again. Here is what you need to know about mitigation and adaptation to be prepared.

"At what point does it make sense to ditch a gas car for an EV?" NPR listener Guadalupe Higuera of Phoenix asked this question and worked with Climate Desk reporter Jeff Brady to answer it.

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Sixteen MIT affiliates, including professors and alumni, have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences for 2026. MIT faculty honorees include Bengt Holmström, Michale Fee, Gareth McKinley, ...

In most U.S. zip codes, electric vehicles are cost-competitive with their gas-powered counterparts, according to a new study. And regarding emissions benefits of EVs, individual driving patterns matte...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is already imposing substantial and uneven costs on U.S. households. A new […]

The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members and 25 international members. Harvard led the way with 15 electees, followed by Stanford (9) & Princeton (8).

MIT affiliates Afreen Siddiqi, Kathleen Thelen, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan, in addition to alumna Kate Manne, were awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships for “prior career achievement and exceptional promi...

This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again

In this episode, we take a deep dive (see what we did there?) into the rich, complicated world of our planet's oceans. We explore how the climate crisis has already impacted our oceans locally and glo...

Renewables generated more than one-third of America's electricity in March 2026, overtaking gas for the first time, new data shows.

Scientists find an exception in the Montreal Protocol for the use of ozone-depleting feedstocks could set the recovery of the ozone layer back seven years.

From insurance premiums to energy bills, a new study from MIT Sloan shows how Americans are already paying the price of climate change, and climate inaction, driven by extreme weather.