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Featured Stories | August 28, 2017
Strength of Global Stratospheric Circulation Measured for First Time
Estimate will help gauge hang time of greenhouse gases, water vapor, and ozone in upper atmosphere. -
Featured Stories | August 2, 2017
Deadly Heat Waves Could Hit South Asia This Century
Without action, climate change could devastate a region home to one-fifth of humanity, study finds. -
Featured Stories | July 31, 2017
Underground Magma Pulse Triggered End-Permian Extinction
Study ties specific interval during an extended period of volcanism to Earth’s most severe mass extinction. -
Featured Stories | July 25, 2017
The Sticky Intertropical Convergence Zone
Ocean circulation coupled to changes in trade winds efficiently damps ITCZ movement to transport heat across the equator. -
Featured Stories | July 24, 2017
Indian Monsoons Have Strengthened Over Past 15 Years
A 50-year dry spell has reversed, with more rain to come. -
Featured Stories | July 21, 2017
Understanding Climate Change’s Ground Zero
Study highlights need to improve modeling of carbon-rich Northern Eurasia -
Featured Stories | July 18, 2017
Susan Solomon Honored for her Contributions to Atmospheric Science
Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies Susan Solomon to receive the Royal Society’s 2018 Bakerian Medal and give the Bakerian Lecture. -
Featured Stories | July 11, 2017
Climate Change to Deplete Some US Water Basins, Reduce Irrigated Crop Yields
By 2050, the Southwest will produce significantly less cotton and forage, researchers report. -
Featured Stories | June 26, 2017
Costa Christopoulos Wins the Christopher Goetze Prize for Undergraduate Research
The award is given for innovative experimental design, care in data collection, and sensitive application of results to research problems. -
Featured Stories | June 23, 2017
Pauline Morrow Austin: Radar & Weather Maven
Pauline Morrow Austin (PhD '42) joined MIT's Weather Radar Research Project at its inception in 1946 and went on to direct the project from 1956-1979. Her pioneering work to interpret weather radar echoes laid the foundation for modern radar meteorology. -
Featured Stories | June 22, 2017
Recognizing a Legacy of Citizenship and Devotion to MIT
Michael McClellan Receives the 2017 Karl Taylor Compton Prize. -
Featured Stories | June 12, 2017
Peatlands, Already Dwindling, Could Face Further Losses
Climate change could damage the fragile zones, causing major carbon emissions. -
Featured Stories | June 8, 2017
Congratulations to the EAPS Class of 2017 Climate Scientists
Degrees awarded during the 2016/2017 academic year are conferred in September, February and June. By EAPS Education Office Doctoral Degrees September 2016 Name Thesis Field Advisor Thesis Title Alice E. Alpert* Paleoceanography Anne Cohen, Glenn Gaetani, Delia Oppo Little Ice Age Climate in the Western Tropical Atlantic Inferred from Coral Geochemical Proxies Daniel E. Amrhein* … Continue reading Congratulations to the EAPS Class of 2017 Climate Scientists -
Featured Stories | June 5, 2017
Measuring Biological Dust in the Wind
A new technique developed in MIT's Cziczo Lab may be the most accurate way of identifying biological aerosols from mineral dust in the atmosphere, constraining their contribution to cloud formation and climate change. -
Featured Stories | June 2, 2017
Letter Regarding US Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
The following email was sent today to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif. -
Featured Stories | June 2, 2017
MIT Issues Statement Regarding Research on Paris Agreement
MIT issued the following statement on Thursday, June 1 2017 in response to a set of talking points circulated in support of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. -
Featured Stories | May 31, 2017
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
Researchers in Greg Fournier’s Geobiology Lab are seeking to calibrate the ancient history of life on Earth using the ultra youthful tool of genomic analysis. -
Featured Stories | May 30, 2017
An Ocean of Curiosity
MIT oceanographers explore Earth’s seas with the Boston community for the 2017 Cambridge Science Festival at the MIT Museum. -
Featured Stories | May 23, 2017
Happy 100th Birthday to the Father of Chaos
Today, May 23rd, Edward N. Lorenz, longtime professor of meteorology at MIT, would have turned 100. Widely recognized as the father of the modern theory of chaos, he profoundly altered the way we view the natural world. -
Featured Stories | May 22, 2017
2017 EAPS Student Awards
A roll-call of this year's Excellence in Teaching, Crosby, and Goetze Award recipients presented at the May 19th Student Recognition Dinner.
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