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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Getting people from Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to the downtown has been a goal since the museum opened more than two decades ago.    But...

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Getting people from Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to the downtown has been a goal since the museum opened more than two decades ago.    But...

MIT's Council for the Uncertain Human Future convenes small circle groups to reckon with the climate crisis in solidarity.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT has released an ambitious new plan for action to address the world’s accelerating climate crisis. The plan, titled “Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade,” includes a broad array of new initiatives and significant expansions of existing programs, to address the needs for new technologies, new policies, and new kinds of outreach to bring the Institute’s expertise to bear on this critical global issue. As MIT President L. Rafael...

Credits: Image: Christopher Harting Next image MIT has released an ambitious new plan for action to address the world’s accelerating climate crisis. The plan, titled “Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade,” includes a broad array of new initiatives and significant expansions of existing programs, to address the needs for new technologies, new policies, and new kinds of outreach to bring the Institute’s expertise to bear on this critic...

Join us for a free livestream event on  January 9, 2021 at 10:30 p.m. EST (January 10, 2021, 9:00 a.m. IST) on the crisis of climate feedback loops, featuring clips from the new short film series “Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops”. From the destruction of forests to the thawing of permafrost, the effects of human-induced climate change have set into motion self-perpetuating feedback loops that are accelerating global warming. What can be done to slow down this threat before it’s too l...