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ESI's TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) podcast demystifies the science, technology, and policy surrounding climate change in 10-minute episodes.

ESI hosted MIT's first Climate Night, bringing VP for Research Maria Zuber to the stage to discuss how the Institute is reaching outside its walls on climate issues.

As machine learning expands into climate modeling, EAPS Associate Professor Paul O’Gorman answers what that looks like and why it's important now.

New insights gained by MIT scientists into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.

Climate Changed Symposium combines art and science to envision the global food system under climate change.

MIT researchers develop a system that harvests drinkable water out of desert air. The device was recently successfully field tested in Tempe, Arizona.

MIT Sloan School of Management is launching a pilot program to purchase carbon offsets for study tours during spring break 2018.

MIT Energy Initiative and Commonwealth Fusion Systems launch a research plan to create a fusion power plant within the next 15 years.

Researchers affiliated with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change are rethinking how we measure carbon emissions.

The blueprint of a city's arrangement determines how heat builds up in the area. In a project supported by the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, Researchers found that "crystalline" structured cities build up less heat than traditional grid-like cities.

Julie Newman and Tim Gutowski have teamed up to offer a new class tackling the carbon issue on campus head-on.

A team at MIT has come up with a novel way to convert temperature fluctuations into electrical power.