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• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 6, 2017

  Study Suggests Complex Life was Present on Earth 2.33 Billion Years Ago

  New estimate predates earliest fossil evidence by 800 million years.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | March 4, 2017

  MIT Faculty Working on Climate Write to President Trump

  The MIT faculty in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate rebut Prof. Linzden’s letter urging the US administration to withdraw from the UN climate convention.
• MIT, MIT News, News | February 27, 2017

  3Q: Maria Zuber, Daughter of Coal Country

  MIT’s vice president for research describes how growing up in eastern Pennsylvania shaped her views on climate policy.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 23, 2017

  Climate@MIT

  A new online publication from MIT reports on exciting climate science research at MIT. We focus on climate as a fundamental science, but occasionally comment on climate action and policy at MIT and climate research occurring elsewhere.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 1, 2017

  Zeroing in on the Chemistry of the Air

  Jesse Kroll examines how pollutants change chemically as they waft around the globe.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 30, 2017

  Explained: Greenhouse Gases

  Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 9, 2017

  Short-lived Greenhouse Gases Cause Centuries of Sea-level Rise

  Through warming effects, methane and other gases impact rising seas long after leaving the atmosphere. By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Even if there comes a day when the world completely stops emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, coastal regions and island nations will continue to experience rising sea levels for centuries afterward, according to … Continue reading Short-lived Greenhouse Gases Cause Centuries of Sea-level Rise →
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 19, 2016

  New Study Sets Oxygen-Breathing Limit for Ocean’s Hardiest Organisms

  Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved of oxygen.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | November 28, 2016

  Climate Models May Be Overestimating the Cooling Effect of Wildfire Aerosols

  Accounting for year-to-year variability enables more accurate projections of climate change and its impacts
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | November 28, 2016

  Saharan Dust in the Wind

  Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to more Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago.
• Featured Stories | September 20, 2016

  3Q: Kerry Emanuel on a “Parexit” and the serious risks of climate change

  In open letter, 375 National Academy of Sciences members warn against opting out of Paris Agreement.
• Featured Stories | September 13, 2016

  How Might a Steep Decline in Aerosols Impact the Climate?

  EAPS PhD student Daniel Rothenberg targets one of climate modeling’s biggest unknowns.
• Featured Stories | July 21, 2016

  Regulating Particulate Pollution: Novel Analysis Yields New Insights

  MIT researchers demonstrate new approach to designing location-specific emissions-control measures
• Featured Stories | July 17, 2016

  Gauging the impact of climate change on U.S. agriculture

  New approach tracks key factors affecting crop yields, enabling early adaptation.
• Featured Stories | June 30, 2016

  Scientists observe first signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer

  September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000.
• Featured Stories | June 13, 2016

  Solving the Mystery of the Antarctic’s Missing Heat

  New research may explain why sea temperatures around Antarctica haven’t risen as much as surface temperatures around the globe.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News | May 13, 2016

  Study Pinpoints Timing of Oxygen’s First Appearance in Earth’s Atmosphere

  Beginning 2.33 billion years ago, atmospheric oxygen built up in just 10 million years.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | March 7, 2016

  Research Takes Center Stage at MIT Climate Symposium

  At MIT on Climate=Science + Action, speakers examined what we know, what’s left to learn, and the diverse climate-related research happening throughout the institute—from exoplanets to the deep ocean and everything in between.