News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Brent Minchew on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 14: Putting a glacier in its place

February 25, 2025

Categories: Faculty, Natural Hazards

On the left, an image of fiber optic cables plugged into a data center rack. On the right, a photo of Hilary Chang and John Morgante posing by a computer set up in a room filled with wires

How telecommunications cables can image the ground beneath us

February 4, 2025

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

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, Natural Hazards, Research

Ask MIT Climate: What are the best- and worst-case scenarios for sea level rise?

June 12, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research

Two graphs side by side showing model predictions of extreme rainfall near Denver, Colorado. The one on the left shows square, poor resolution data. The one on the right is higher resolution.

Making climate models relevant for local decision makers

June 10, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Study: Heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes

May 08, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

In darkness, thumbs hold two small spherical and one small cube objects that light up in vivid yellow, red, and green.

With a new experimental technique, MIT engineers probe the mechanisms of landslides and earthquakes

March 25, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate

January 24, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research

A map of a section of Japan, including the Noto Peninsula, showing two pieces of information: one, the intensity of the January 1st earthquake getting smaller further away from the epicenter found off the coast of the Peninsula, and two, the slip amplitude, which has two intense clusters near the epicenter of 6 meters.

Q&A: What sets the recent Japan earthquake apart from others?

January 24, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Natural Hazards

Ask MIT Climate: What is the risk that CO2 stored underground after carbon capture will escape again?

September 28, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research

A helicopter drops water on a vast, smokey forest fire

Q&A: Are far-reaching fires the new normal?

June 9, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Natural Hazards, Research

3 Questions: O’Gorman awarded the 2023 Haurwitz Lectureship by the American Meteorological Society

September 2, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Natural Hazards

Kerry Emanuel: A climate scientist and meteorologist in the eye of the storm

June 29, 2022

Categories: Faculty, Natural Hazards, Profile

Magma beneath tectonic collision zones is wetter than previously thought

May 26, 2022

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

Looking forward to forecast the risks of a changing climate

April 15, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Computing our climate future

April 13, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

April 7, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Study: Ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously thought

March 10, 2022

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Shaking up earthquake research at MIT

January 19, 2022

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research