Climate change
Climate change

Jackson Jewett wants to design buildings that use less concrete

The PhD student is honing algorithms for designing large structures with less material — helping to shrink the construction industry’s huge carbon footprint.

A new dataset of Arctic images will spur artificial intelligence research

The dataset, being collected as part of a US Coast Guard science mission, will be released open source to help advance naval mission planning and climate change studies.

Q&A: Gabriela Sá Pessoa on Brazilian politics, human rights in the Amazon, and AI

The Brazilian social justice reporter is a fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies.

Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land

Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.

Detailed images from space offer clearer picture of drought effects on plants

J-WAFS researchers are using remote sensing observations to build high-resolution systems to monitor drought.