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Namrata Kala, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, often studies environmental problems and their effects on workers and firms.

Improving working environments amid environmental distress

Namrata Kala’s wide-ranging research shows how climate change and other factors affect companies and their employees.
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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.

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.
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A glacier flows into a fjord in the southwest coast of Greenland.

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

The findings should help scientists refine predictions of future sea-level rise.
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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.

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

Collaborative scholarship and research will draw on conservation, design, and technology.
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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.”

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.
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Kate Brown is the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science in the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Q&A: The power of tiny gardens and their role in addressing climate change

Kate Brown, MIT professor of history, discusses how ordinary people taking action in their communities can offer hope for the future.
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