News and Outreach: Steven Barrett

Founding Director Susan Solomon and other MIT CS3-affiliated researchers among key contributors (MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative)

An expert on the environmental impacts of aviation, Barrett succeeds Daniel Hastings as department head (MIT News)

New technologies, including one fuel extracted from the atmosphere itself, could make flying more sustainable. But the challenges are many and the timeline is uncertain. (New York Times)

Faculty leaders detail promising technologies, materials, and methods that could help unlock a low-carbon future in sectors where emissions are hardest to cut

The computer-vision technique behind these maps could help avoid contrail production, reducing aviation’s climate impact

Proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent, a new study finds

Website features accessible "Explainers" by MIT Joint Program researchers and other MIT climate experts

Residential and commercial emissions are now the leading cause of cross-state early deaths (New York Times) (More: CNN, Reuters, USA Today, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, Scientific American, USNWR, PopSci, Forbes)​