Negative emission technologiesCould South African Mine Wastes Provide a Feasible Storage Method for Millions of Tons of CO2? By Liam Bullock, Zakhele Nkosi and Maxwell Amponsah-Dacosta Published 8 April 2021 Mine sites are literally well-oiled machines, and it is easy to witness both the pros and cons that sites have on our society. However, hidden

Negative emission technologiesHow Microorganisms Can Help Us Get to Net Negative Emissions Published 8 April 2021 To reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, society has increasingly tried turning to plants to make the everyday products we need. But what if plants could be removed from the picture, eliminating the need

ImmigrationU.S. Immigration Courts Brace for Flood of Asylum Claims By Aline Barros Published 7 April 2021 U.S. immigration courts, already swamped with a backlog of 1.3 million cases, are ill-prepared to handle a crush of new asylum claims filed by a rising number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, especially children traveling alone, current and

Public healthWhat Has the Pandemic Revealed about the U.S. Health Care System — and What Needs to Change? Published 7 April 2021 With vaccinations for Covid-19 now underway across the nation, seven MIT scholars engaged in health and health care research share their views on what the pandemic has revealed about the U.S. health care

Rare Earth elementsThe U.S. Is Worried about Its Critical Minerals Supply Chains – Essential for Electric Vehicles, Wind Power and the Nation’s Defense By Jordy Lee and Morgan Bazilian Published 7 April 2021 When U.S. companies build military weapons systems, electric vehicle batteries, satellites and wind turbines, they rely heavily on a few dozen “critical

Public healthWhat Has the Pandemic Revealed about the U.S. Health Care System — and What Needs to Change? Published 7 April 2021 With vaccinations for Covid-19 now underway across the nation, seven MIT scholars engaged in health and health care research share their views on what the pandemic has revealed about the U.S. health care

First respondersThe Future of Lifesaving Firefighting Technology Published 7 April 2021 A groundbreaking tracking and location technology will soon allow agencies to pinpoint their firefighters to within centimeters, helping to navigate them quickly and safely out of potentially disorienting emergency scenarios. Six firefighters lost their lives responding to a fire in a century-old, abandoned warehouse in

Nuclear wasteRetaining Knowledge of Nuclear Waste Management Published 7 April 2021 Sandia National Laboratories have begun their second year of a project to capture important, hard-to-explain nuclear waste management knowledge from retirement-age employees to help new employees get up to speed faster. The project has experts share their experience with and knowledge of storage, transportation,

Toxic leaksFlorida Governor Working to Prevent “Catastrophic Flood” of Toxic Wastewater in Tampa Area Published 5 April 2021 Florida governor Ron DeSantis has vowed to prevent a “catastrophic flood” near the major city of Tampa. A leaking toxic wastewater reservoir has the potential to cause an environmental crisis in the region. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said

CybersecurityPunitive Response to SolarWinds Would Be Misplaced, But Cyber Deterrence Still Matters By Erica D. Borghard Published 5 April 2021 Some analysts argue that the United States should respond to the SolarWinds breach by focusing on improving defenses, rather than on conducting a retaliatory response such as some government officials have been advocating. Apunitive response