Environment

Arizona, California and Nevada have narrowly averted a regional water crisis by agreeing to reduce their use of Colorado River water over the next three years. This deal represents a temporary solution to a long-term...

When staff in MIT’s Department of Facilities would visualize energy use and carbon-associated emissions by campus buildings,...

Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a problem, too.According to a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science, climate change appears to be making them...

If we could rewind the tape of species evolution around the world and play it forward over...

A new project on civil discourse aims to promote open and civil discussion of difficult topics on...

Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit at the wrong time, they can devastate a region’s agriculture.They’re also becoming increasingly common as the planet warms.In a new study published May 25, 2023,...

They can bolster the coastlines, break the force of hurtling waves, provide housing for fish, shellfish, and migrating birds, clean the water, store as much as 5 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide, and pump oxygen into the ocean,...

Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high tides makes many city roads impassable, and water mains for the public drinking...

A study led by Queen's University Belfast finds 48% of species are undergoing population declines. Source link

MIT junior Anushree Chaudhuri has been selected as a 2023 Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall...