Oceans have a bunch of ways to lock away carbon

As a runaway climate scenario looms, scientists are hurrying to fully understand Earth's largest carbon sink: its oceans.

Sonia Fernandez-UCSB • futurity
April 22, 2019 ~4 min

Greener, more efficient natural gas filtration

Novel membrane material removes more impurities, without the need for toxic solvents.

Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent • mit
April 8, 2019 ~7 min


Sun-loving microbe chows down on electricity for fuel

New research pinpoints the cellular processes that allow certain bacteria to "eat" electricity to fuel their growth.

Talia Ogliore-WUSTL • futurity
March 29, 2019 ~5 min

The ocean captures gigatonnes of our CO2

A team calculating how much CO2 the oceans took up over 13 years found that the percentage hasn't increased but the amount has. By a lot.

ETH Zurich • futurity
March 27, 2019 ~7 min

Arctic lakes don’t release as much CO2 as some feared

"...not all high-latitude lakes are big chimneys of carbon to the atmosphere," new research finds.

Michelle Ma-Washington • futurity
Feb. 26, 2019 ~7 min

Study evaluates China’s progress in establishing accounting measures to reinforce its Paris pledge

Firms learn from experience in the measurement, reporting, and verification of carbon emissions under China’s emissions trading systems.

Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
Feb. 1, 2019 ~5 min

Tackling greenhouse gases

Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering are developing technologies that store, capture, convert, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.

Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering • mit
Jan. 7, 2019 ~19 min

More CO2 messes up salmons’ life-or-death sense of smell

Salmon depend on scent to avoid predators, sniff out prey, and find their way home to spawn at the end of their lives.

Michelle Ma-Washington • futurity
Dec. 26, 2018 ~6 min


CO2-driven acidity hits oceans hard

A natural lab off the coast of Italy offers a crystal-ball view of what human-generated carbon dioxide is doing to the oceans. No surprise: it's not good.

Nicole Kravec-Stanford • futurity
Dec. 12, 2018 ~4 min

Technology and policy pathways to Paris emissions goals

Two new MIT reports advance practical emissions-reduction strategies for Southeast Asia and Latin America at both the regional and country level.

Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
Dec. 10, 2018 ~9 min

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