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MIT News | Oct 04, 2011
Anaerobic digesters provide a win-win opportunity for agriculture and energy.
When thinking about renewable energy sources, images of windmills and solar panels often come to mind. Now add to that picture livestock manure. Researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global...
MIT News | Sep 08, 2011
Competing demands for food, fuels, and forests
How do you value an ecosystem? Putting a dollar value on natural systems such as forests has long beset economists.
Forests provide “non-use values,” such as the pleasure of knowing that a natural system exists, and recreational values, such as hunting...
MIT News | Aug 29, 2011
MIT researchers improve upon methods to model atmospheric aerosols.
Allison Crimmins
Urban regions account for an ever increasing fraction of Earth’s population, and are consequently an ever increasing source of air pollutants. These pollutants include anthropogenic aerosols, which have important...
New York Times | Aug 27, 2011
By JUSTIN GILLIS
The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse because of human-induced climate change?
The short answer from scientists is that they are still...
CNN | Aug 25, 2011
By Kerry Emanuel, Special to CNN
August 25, 2011 11:45 p.m. EDT
Editor's note: Kerry Emanuel is a professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(CNN) -- At this moment, Hurricane Irene poses a risk to almost everyone living along the Eastern Seaboard, from Florida to the...
Environmental Research Letters News | Aug 01, 2011
Nadya Anscombe
If wind power is going to meet 20% of our predicted energy needs in 2100, millions of wind turbines must be installed around the globe. Modelling performed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, has shown that these vast wind farms, if installed in offshore...
The Mercury Game | Jul 20, 2011
Texas Green Report (Sierra Club) | Jul 19, 2011
Dr. Tammy Thompson, postdoctoral associate from the MIT Joint Program for the Science and Policy of Global Change, will be speaking at a press conference held by the Texas Sierra Club at the Houston City Hall on Tuesday, July 19, 10:00am. Dr. Thompson wil be speaking on air pollution in Texas.
For...
Brookings | Jul 11, 2011
As the world economy attempts to balance burgeoning energy demand with lower carbon emissions, natural gas has become a central pillar of energy strategy in both the developed and developing world. Advances in exploration and production technology have led to newly abundant sources of “...
MIT News | Jun 16, 2011
At MIT, former Michigan governor touts new bipartisan initiatives to make the U.S. the world’s clean-energy champ.
David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
In a spirited talk at MIT, former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm presented a plan for a bipartisan initiative that she said could help the...