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MITEI Director Robert Armstrong joins others to discuss what their organizations are doing to support the fight against the pandemic.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif connects lessons from the fight against Covid-19 to actions we need to take on a global scale to combat climate change.

The New York Times spotlights Kerry Emanuel’s (MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences) book, "What We Know About Climate Change," in a roundup of recommended reading on climate change.

MITEI researcher Howard J. Herzog and Professor T. Alan Hatton (MIT Chemical Engineering) discuss the role of carbon capture, utilization, and storage in addressing climate change and the current barriers to its widespread implementation.

Professor T. Alan Hatton comments on the uses and implications of different carbon capture technologies, and the importance of finding ways to move away from reliance on fossil fuels.

MIT professor Jacopo Buongiorno comments on the current state of nuclear molten salt reactors.

MITEI researcher Emre Gençer comments on the use of hydrogen in supplementing intermittent renewable sources such as wind and solar.

John Parsons, the co-director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (one of MITEI's low-carbon energy centers), discusses the role that regional needs and capabilities will play in determining where nuclear power will fit into the future energy landscape.

Under the direction of Professor Franz Josef-Ulm, a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard and Birzeit University have developed an app that uses phone data to determine road quality, which could help curb carbon emissions. Using this data, drivers could avoid rougher roads, which require more gas to drive on.

Jennifer Morris, a research scientist at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, speaks with Inside EPA about key findings from MITEI's "Insights into Future Mobility" report. She says that in all examined scenarios, the researchers expect to see significant growth of electric vehicles.

Randall Field, executive director of the Mobility of the Future study and the Mobility Systems Center at the MIT Energy Initiative, and Joanna Moody, research program manager for the center, join Digital Trends Live to discuss MITEI's "Insights into Future Mobility" report findings, from infrastructure considerations for alternative fuel vehicles to how autonomous vehicles can work alongside mass transit.

Improved efficiency of gas-powered cars is as critical as electrification in terms of mitigating climate change, says Joanna Moody, research program manager of MITEI's Mobility Systems center and coordinating author of MITEI's "Insights into Future Mobility" report.