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• Featured Stories, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | May 3, 2018

  Clearing the air over Southeast Asia

  Study finds reducing biomass burning is not enough to significantly improve air quality in Southeast Asia. Photo: Southeast Asia shrouded by smoke (Source: NASA Earth Observatory) By Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change In recent years Southeast Asia has seen a significant increase in the intensity and … Continue reading Clearing the air over Southeast Asia →
• Featured Stories, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 26, 2018

  What Will We Eat in the Year 2050?

  Combining art and science to envision the global food system under climate change
• Featured Stories, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 23, 2018

  Study: Health benefits Will Offset Cost of China’s Climate Policy

  A 4 percent reduction per year in carbon dioxide emissions should net $339 billion in health savings in 2030, researchers estimate.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 23, 2018

  Urban Planning for a Changing Climate

  Harvard's Science in the News (SITN) speaks with John Bolduc, the Environmental Planner for the City of Cambridge, and MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel about what local communities are doing to address the challenges climate change is creating for urban infrastructure.
• Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT EAPS | April 19, 2018

  Gauging the Effects of Water Scarcity on an Irrigated Planet

  Study projects likely impacts on food prices, bioenergy production, and deforestation.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 17, 2018

  Featured Video: MIT’s meteorology pioneers

  Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences honors trailblazing professors Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz with a tribute to their lives and legacies.
• MIT, News | April 9, 2018

  MIT students and Postdocs Visit Capitol Hill to Advocate for Increases in Federal Science Funding

  Members of MIT's Science Policy Initiative meet with members of Congress on Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day 2018.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 9, 2018

  Microbial Competition for Nitrogen

  New framework shows how ecological interactions among microorganisms account for nitrite accumulation just below the sunlit zone, with implications for oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycling.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | March 24, 2018

  Celebrating the Science of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz

  MIT professors Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz profoundly shaped the field of meteorology during their lifetimes. Charney laid the groundwork for numerical weather prediction and saw it transform nearly every aspect of the field, while Lorenz changed our conception of weather from deterministic phenomena to chaos.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | March 23, 2018

  This is What a Scientist Looks Like

  Researchers from MIT EAPS celebrate women in science at MIT Museum’s Girls Day.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | March 19, 2018

  Unearthing Long-Gone Hurricanes

  MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography graduate student Lizzie Wallace hunts for buried scientific treasure.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | March 9, 2018

  Foray into Weather Forecasting

  Students learn about synoptic meteorology and weather forecasting during the 2018 Independent Activities Period
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | March 7, 2018

  Storied Women of MIT: Eugenia Kalnay

  Eugenia Kalnay (PhD ‘71) is a world-renowned meteorologist and the first woman to earn a PhD in Meteorology from MIT. Storied Women of MIT is a series of 60-second historical profiles of MIT faculty, students, researchers, and staff highlighting the role of women at the Institute from its founding to today.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | February 28, 2018

  Where Fresh is Cool in Bay of Bengal

  Monsoon runoff generates cool tendrils at surface, cuts off nutrients
• MIT, MIT EAPS, News | February 22, 2018

  At the Intersection

  Five grad students, including EAPS member Dan Gilford, on finding their own routes into the policy sphere
• Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | February 20, 2018

  GlobalFood+ Speed Talks advance more sustainable food systems

  Joint Program-affiliated researchers share findings at nexus of food, agriculture, environment and health
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT - The Darwin Project, MIT EAPS, News | February 15, 2018

  PAOC Goes to Ocean Sciences 2018

  Look out for the EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate (PAOC) sharing their work at this year’s Ocean Sciences conference taking place February 11-16 in Portland, Oregon.
• Featured Stories, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | February 14, 2018

  Projecting the Impacts of Climate Change

  Joint Program researchers advocate for improved modeling approach.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | February 13, 2018

  Intensive Agriculture Influences U.S. Regional Summer climate, Study Finds

  An increase in corn and soybean production in the Midwest may have led to cooler, wetter summers there.
• Featured Stories, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | February 12, 2018

  MIT on Chaos and Climate: A Celebration of Two Pioneers of Modern Meteorology

  MIT atmospheric scientists and trailblazers Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz gave us numerical weather prediction and chaos theory, highlighting the value of basic research.