Director of the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab, within the Center for Transportation and Logistics, honored for “leading the way ... to help disaster survivors in their own backyards and around the world.”
As climate change accelerates sea-level rise and intensifies storms, marsh-fronted seawalls can provide an economical coastal defense, MIT engineers report.
A new method called Clio enables robots to quickly map a scene and identify the items they need to complete a given set of tasks.
A new downscaling method leverages machine learning to speed up climate model simulations at finer resolutions, making them usable on local levels.
The results suggest that climate may influence seismic activity.
TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.
The new approach “nudges” existing climate simulations closer to future reality.
Geophysicist William Frank discusses how a recent earthquake in Japan relates to an earthquake swarm in the region.
Using New York as a test case, the model predicts flooding at the level experienced during Hurricane Sandy will occur roughly every 30 years by the end of this century.
Professor of urban and environmental planning David Hsu explains what municipal governments are doing as climate change accelerates.
After a summer of weather extremes, where does the world stand in its goal to stem rising temps?
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Research Program Director Marcela Angel MCP ’18 has built an international program in natural climate solutions.
As Canada’s wildfires continue to be felt downwind, MIT experts weigh in on what to expect in the coming months, with wildfire season underway.
Ali Jadbabaie and Robert van der Hilst discuss how a new joint degree program in climate system science and engineering will prepare students to solve global-scale environmental problems.
Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters.