MIT researchers work to discover biodegradable polyesters, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, J-WAFS, and DIC Corp.

The new findings could explain biodiversity hotspots in tectonically quiet regions.

A variety of recent events highlighted efforts by faculty, staff, and students to make a difference today.

Assistant Professor César Terrer and recent visiting student Stephen Bell describe how agricultural lands that are no longer productive could play an important role in carbon sequestration.

Project will develop new materials characterization tools and technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls.

MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020.

New modeling tool enables rapid design of effective and equitable policy combinations.

Researchers urge industry and the research community to explore electrification pathways to reduce chemical industry emissions.

Study: Even chess experts perform worse when air quality is lower, suggesting a negative effect on cognition.

Study shows that if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, hardware efficiency will need to advance rapidly to keep computing-related emissions in check.