A new study finds a 10-year rise in China’s sulfur hexafluoride emissions and pinpoints its sources. SF6, commonly used in electric power grids, has a greenhouse effect more than 24,000 times that of carbon dioxide.
The 2023 Global Change Outlook presents the MIT Joint Program’s latest projections for the future of the Earth’s energy, food, water and climate systems under existing global climate policies and those aligned with capping global warming at 1.5 C.
A new study explores how effective current federal decarbonization policies are in reducing U.S. racial and economic disparities in PM2.5 exposure, and what changes will be needed to improve their performance.
MIT's STRESS platform enables users to assess multiple, co-evolving, compounding environmental and economic hazards within a U.S. geographical region. This screening-level visualization tool can pinpoint risk “hot spots” that can be subsequently investigated in greater detail.
A new modeling approach could enable decision-makers to reduce hazardous emissions and improve public health through more rapid design of combined climate and air-quality policies.