Environment

North America’s bee populations are in trouble, but don’t blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees – those raised to help pollinate crops and produce honey –...

Two of Antarctica’s most iconic species, the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), have...

Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Climate and Energy Professor in the MIT Department of Civil...

When a drought turns into an urban water crisis, a city’s first step is often to limit lawn watering and launch a campaign to encourage everyone to conserve. It might raise water-use rates or offer...

It has been said that Persian Gulf countries are both blessed and cursed by their vast oil and gas reserves. Geologic forces over millions of years have meant the region is an energy-rich global flash...

One-third of people with migraines don’t respond to current treatments, but harnessing the brain’s cleaning system could open up...

Using the new information, described as a "master key", those involved in the project said they had already traced Crinkle's roots back to wild populations near Ifrane National Park and Khenifra National Park in Morocco - two strongholds for...

The global energy crisis caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is only the beginning of the economic cost of the war with Iran.I study how institutions affect businesses and supply chains,...

For the past three summers, MIT master’s students and recently graduated planners have collaborated with cities and...

Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.Today, those resorts are long gone, replaced by a...