News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Two urban landscapes showing improved air quality when industry uses renewable energy sources.

When companies “go green,” air quality impacts can vary dramatically

December 8, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

When we remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, how long does it stay locked away?

December 4, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Abigail Bodner: Modeling where the ocean and atmosphere communicate

December 2, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Profile

Health and Climate: Noelle Selin on Climate Reveal podcast

November 24, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, In the Media

Weather vs Climate: SRS Adam Scholsser on Climate Reveal Podcast

November 10, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media

When scientists reconstruct ancient climates from ice cores, how do they create an accurate timeline?

November 7, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Solar panel arrays in a field.

MITEI Future Energy Systems Center funds new projects to advance the energy transition

September 17, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

A map of the Pacific Ocean showing cruise tracks overlaying a temperature gradient of the ocean.

Warming oceans may threaten key oxygen-producing microbe

September 9, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research

Stephanie Dutkiewicz in front of computer display

Research Insight: the role of marine microbial diversity and dynamics in climate models

September 1, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments

Boston skyline with decorative background.

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction

August 26, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Woman and children walk over sandbag embankment in Bangladesh.

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scientists report

April 11, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

The U.S. research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer photographed from a drone at Thwaites Glacier ice front in February 2019.

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier” with Brent Minchew

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, In the Media

How do we know what the Earth’s climate was like millions of years ago?

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

TIL Climate Podcast: Hasn’t the climate changed before?

March 06, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Side-by-side portraits of Yanchong (Karen) Zheng and Sai Ravela.

Sai Ravela earns J-WAFS grant for solutions-oriented sustainability project in India

January 13, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

What would happen if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapses? How likely is it?

January 2, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

On left, a rural setting with grass and greenery. On right, brown flood water shows excessive flooding.

New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding

November 25, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Ask MIT Climate: How much can a large volcanic eruption affect the climate?

November 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

Lyle Nelson at a desert field site.

3 Questions: Meet Lyle Nelson, EAPS newest faculty member

October 25, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments

portrait of Noelle Selin

Selin to lead new MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

August 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments