Climate change
Climate change

Climate change

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MIT in the media: 2023 in review

MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.

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AI meets climate: MIT Energy and Climate Hack 2023

The Energy and Climate Hack presented opportunities for students and companies to collaborate and develop innovative solutions.

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AI pilot programs look to reduce energy use and emissions on MIT campus

A cross-departmental team is leading efforts to utilize machine learning for increased efficiency in heating and cooling MIT’s buildings.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.