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News + Impact
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![Fatima Husain stands in a lab with arm resting on table. The table has a complex machine with a cylindrical base and tubes and wires connected to the table and ceiling.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Fatima-Husain-MIT-News-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Unlocking history with geology and genetics
January 25, 2024![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MIT-carbon-sink-tectonics-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Enhanced rock weathering
November 9, 2023![An Amazonian village with about 20 huts that form a large a ring around an empty, brown, circular area. Lots of trees are around the village.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-AmazonEarth-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile “dark earth”
September 20, 2023![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/F1AWTMMWYAE1Nhg-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT_Rivers-from-Orbit-01-scaled-580x0-c-default.jpg)
Studying rivers from worlds away
July 10, 2023![Illustration has a black, rocky background, a large river forks off. A large greenfin darter is overlayed on the large river. The 3 forks each have smaller greenfin darters, each with a unique colorful glow.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-FishyGeology-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![3 cartoony green microbes ride a raft made of shell on a blue ocean. One microbe has a telescope to look ahead. A sign in the water says they are heading towards to the “Ocean.”](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-CellRafts-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![Becca Mastrola sits on a rock formation and smiles at the camera.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/unlocking-age-old-secrets-stone-01-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Unlocking Age-Old Secrets Set in Stone
May 2, 2023![Greg Fournier stands in the woods, and there is a stream in background. There are fallen leaves and branches, and it is a cloudy day in early Spring.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-FournierGreg-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Searching across deep time to understand “ecogenesis”
April 7, 2023![5 vertical photos show granular objects: marbles, glass beads, seaglass, rocks, and plastic beads.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-GrainFlow-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Moving water and earth
January 11, 2023![Aviva Intveld, smiling and leaning on a railing overlooking the Charles River with the Boston skyline in the background.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Intveld-Aviva_0-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Looking to the past to prepare for an uncertain future
January 11, 2023![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/green-building-aerial-alt2_0-1-scaled-580x0-c-default.jpg)
![Earth in black space, with constellations and data wave.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT_Sustaining-Climate-01-PRESS-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds
November 16, 2022![Leigh Royden, dressed in a burgundy coat jacket, smiles while standing in an out-of-focus white hallway.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Royden-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Geophysicist Leigh Royden looks at Earth from the top down
October 30, 2022![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-Magma-Water-01-PRESS_0-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Topographies that talk
April 27, 2022![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/EAPS-AGU-social-2021-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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