Fast-rising temperatures can change how plants and animals behave and disrupt the delicate timing of pollination.

Mingmar Sherpa, a researcher in the Martin Lab in the Department of Biology, has remained connected to his home in Nepal at every step of his career.

Two-thirds of the Panama Canal watershed’s freshwater goes to operate the locks. The country plans to build another reservoir to funnel in more water, but hundreds of homes stand in the way.

The Trump administration’s goal is to roll back rules limiting planet-warming greenhouse gases emissions from power plants, vehicles and oil and gas production, but it could backfire for industry.

During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian invasion. Climate change is still on the military’s radar as a threat multiplier.

For the past decade, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab has strengthened MIT faculty efforts in water and food research and innovation.

A global economist’s shares her take on the new presidential administration’s planned tariffs: "American consumers will get hurt."

Human-driven ocean warming is increasingly overwhelming El Niño, La Niña, and other natural climate patterns.

Improved computer models shed light on how reducing sulphur emissions will inadvertently release methane from wetlands.