Aug 27, 2020 | Climate, Drones, Featured
New instruments in the research tool kit bolster scientific understanding of the ecology of a greening Arctic. As Earth warms, satellite images send strong indications of Arctic greening. But a greening signal belies greater complexity. Climate change brings a ground...
Aug 20, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Mobility
The Mobility Systems Center (MSC), one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers, will fund four new research projects that will allow for deeper insights into achieving a decarbonized transportation sector. “Based on input...
Jul 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
CARS HAVE NOT been good for the environment, to put it lightly. Transportation accounts for 28 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and light-duty vehicles for more than half of those. Someday, self-driving cars will appear widely in the US....
Jul 16, 2020 | Climate, Featured, Robots
This year, as hurricanes race into the warming coastal waters of the U.S., an array of seagoing robots will be waiting for them. The torpedo-shaped machines will be positioned in what amounts to no man’s land, places where no ships or humans might survive and where...
Feb 20, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Climate
For the first time, artificial-intelligence experts have created a place to collaborate on climate issues, Climate Change AI. Some are mining the massive data of remotely sensed emissions streams. Some are accelerating materials discovery for solar fuels by...
Jan 15, 2020 | Climate, Electric Vehicles
While it’s indeed true that it costs less and is better for the environment to drive a zero-emissions electric car than a comparable combustion engine model, exactly how cheap and how clean it will wind up can vary significantly from one part of the country to...
Recent Comments