ESI visiting scientist Scott Odell is among the contributors to a special edition of Environmental Forum on responsible mining of clean energy materials.
The Environmental Solutions Initiative has partnered with SubjectToClimate to introduce a help desk for educators called “ClimateSocrates.”
(Spanish language) ESI Research Program Director Marcela Angel speaks with El País about nature-based approaches to mitigating climate change.
On plastic pollution, “[There’s] no silver bullet, there isn’t going to be one technical advance that’s going to fix the problem,” ESI’s Christopher Noble tells CNET.
The ESI researcher, entrepreneur and DJ founded Lamarr.AI to employ artificial intelligence, aerial robotics and cloud computing to rapidly diagnose the performance of building envelopes.
Marcela speaks to Kyanite Partners about her childhood in Bogotá and her projects at the intersections of computing, urban planning, natural climate solutions and environmental justice.
ESI’s Luis Gilberto Murillo and Marcela Angel Lalinde have published an essay in Sur, an international journal of human rights issues in the Global South, laying out the opportunities for Afro-descendant communities in the Americas to contribute to climate solutions in ways that also address social, economic and racial injustices.
ESI’s Marcela Angel spoke to Forbes Colombia about our natural climate solutions program, which works with afro-descendant communities in Latin America to co-produce climate adaptation and mitigation solutions.
The collaboration with Colombia’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation will center on sustainable economic activity within biodiverse regions.
In this op ed, ESI’s Luis Gilberto Murillo and Caroline White-Nockleby argue for U.S. backing for collective land titling for indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Latin America, to advance both regional goals and America’s climate agenda.
ESI’s Here and Real program connects MIT climate research to communities.
Caroline White-Nockleby, lead author of an ESI white paper on the tax structure of a Pennsylvania coal county, talks to Pittsburgh’s NPR radio station WESA.
The ESI Rapid Response Group is investigating how university endowments can and should approach climate issues.
A November conference at MIT brought together world experts in theoretical and numerical modelling to consider the problem of microplastic pollution.
The New York Times Climate Fwd: newsletter listed our podcast, TILclimate, as one of ten resources to “refresh your understanding of our warming planet” this Thanksgiving holiday.
ESI Director John Fernández writes an open letter to President Trump in the Boston Globe.
The MIT ClimateX podcast speaks with ESI Director John Fernández at the MIT Together in Climate Action Summit.
Asana spoke to ESI’s Hannah Loomis about her planning process for the Initiative’s interconnected Earth Day events.
ESI and Conservation International joined forces at the Hackathon for Climate to create new digital solutions that reduce emissions or improve climate resilience.
ESI seed grant recipient Pierre Lermusiaux is studying the effects of deep sea waves on oceanic infrastructure.
ESI Director John Fernández writes to MIT Tech Review about the relationship between biology and geology.