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Featured Stories | January 19, 2018
Susan Solomon Awarded the 2018 Crafoord Prize
Professor of atmospheric chemistry honored for her contributions to atmospheric science. -
Featured Stories | January 18, 2018
J-WAFS’ Inaugural Seed Grant Projects Come to a Close
Projects involving two from EAPS advance water and food security. -
Featured Stories | January 17, 2018
A Primer on Understanding Climate Science
MIT professor Kerry Emanuel explains the science behind climate change as well as the associated risks -
Featured Stories | January 6, 2018
Nicholas Hawco PhD ’17 Receives the 2017 Rossby Award
The award is given for the best PhD thesis done the preceding year within PAOC. -
Featured Stories | January 3, 2018
Scientists Find Surprising Evidence of Rapid Changes in the Arctic
Scientists have found surprising evidence of rapid climate change in the Arctic: In the middle of the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, they discovered that the levels of radium-228 have almost doubled over the last decade. -
Featured Stories | December 25, 2017
Cleaner air, longer lives
Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol. -
Featured Stories | December 22, 2017
Terrascope Mission 2021: Preparing the World for Climate Change
Mission: Prepare the world for climate change, specifically Cambridge, MA and southern Bangladesh. -
Featured Stories | December 21, 2017
Water Resource Risks: Integrated Approaches to Support Actions
MIT Joint Program workshop highlights pathways toward sustainable water resources -
Featured Stories | December 21, 2017
A More Diverse Role for Diatoms
A review article involving Stephanie Dutkiewicz and Oliver Jahn suggests the diatoms have more diverse roles in carbon cycling than previously understood. -
Featured Stories | December 18, 2017
Exploring Ethical Dimensions of Climate Negotiation
MIT researchers focus on empathy, transparency, and empowerment at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference. -
Featured Stories | November 13, 2017
Texas’ Odds of Harvey-scale Rainfall to Increase by End of Century
Study finds state’s annual risk of extreme rainfall will rise from 1 to 18 percent. -
Featured Stories | November 12, 2017
Visualizing Climate Science at HUBweek
Art and augmented reality brings MIT – For a Better World to life -
Featured Stories | November 7, 2017
A Brief History of Environmental Successes
This year, the Lorenz Center invited Susan Solomon to give the 7th annual John Carlson Lecture at the New England Aquarium on October 26th, 2017. Professor Solomon talked about past environmental challenges that were successfully overcome and how climate change, as perhaps “the mother” of all environmental challenges, compares. -
Featured Stories | October 23, 2017
Noelle Selin: Tracing Toxins Around the World
Atmospheric chemist takes on pollutants and the global treaties written to control them. -
Featured Stories | September 22, 2017
Technique Spots Warning Signs of Extreme Events
Method may help predict hotspots of instability affecting climate, aircraft performance, and ocean circulation. -
Featured Stories | September 21, 2017
What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?
MIT prominent meteorologist and climate scientist Kerry Emanuel discusses projections of changing hurricane activity over the rest of this century and what such projections tell us about how the probabilities of hurricanes like Harvey and Irma have already changed and are likely to continue to do so. -
Featured Stories | September 21, 2017
Mathematics Predicts a Sixth Mass Extinction
By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia. -
Featured Stories | September 7, 2017
“EarthArt” exhibit at Hayden Library
See your art and data displayed on the illuminated iGlobe. -
Featured Stories | September 5, 2017
Team Gathers Unprecedented Data on Atmosphere’s Organic Chemistry
Colorado forest study provides clearest-ever picture of gases released into the atmosphere and how they change. -
Featured Stories | September 1, 2017
ClimateX: How Climate Puzzles of the Past Point us to the Future
Paleoclimatologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, David McGee, speaks with ClimateX's Climate Conversations team about Earth's climate changes in the last half million years, our dependence upon climate stability and David’s role in Terrascope, a freshman learning community at MIT. Additionally, He explains how his team tracks historical changes in the Earth’s climate.
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