Topics: Health of the Planet

MIT’s Climate Resiliency Dashboard reveals potential risk to the campus from flooding. Image: Courtesy of MIT Office of Sustainability
Spring 2021

Campus Test Bed

MIT partners with Cambridge on flood-risk model for local, global benefit

Phytoplankton swirls reveal underlying currents, eddies, and flows in the ocean. Small-scale turbulent processes like these are crucial to the new climate model. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory
Spring 2021

Climate Futures

CliMA collaboration aims to reinvent Earth system modeling

Desirée Plata. Photo: Lillie Paquette
Spring 2021

Chemistry Cleanup

Desirée Plata devises new methods for decontaminating air, water

One project undertaken via J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative centers on reducing air pollution in Surat, a city in Gujarat, India. Photo: CRS Photo / Shutterstock.com
Spring 2021

A Breath of Fresh Air

Major new J-PAL initiative targets impact at the nexus of climate and poverty