![Black spheres with the letter “C” on them, representing carbon molecules, float out of the water.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MIT-Overturned-Ocean-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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![Black spheres with the letter “C” on them, representing carbon molecules, float out of the water.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MIT-Overturned-Ocean-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Researching extreme environments
April 19, 2024![Venus in space with multi-colored amino acid molecules in its atmosphere.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MIT-AcidLife-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Study: Global deforestation leads to more mercury pollution
February 12, 2024![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/2024/02/carbon_lite_non-gif-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![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-580x0-c-default.jpg)
Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile “dark earth”
September 20, 2023![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Natural-Climate-Solutions-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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![The North Sea via satellite. The dark blue water has swirls of teal, and Germany peeks out from the bottom right.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-OceanColor-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![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)
![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![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/bacteria-size-partial-crop-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-580x0-c-default.jpg)
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Featured video: Investigating our blue ocean planet
February 15, 2023![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ciara-Willis-Jessica-Todd-research-cruise-1-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Balancing ocean research and fieldwork
February 1, 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-575x0-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![In the dark ocean, a cartoon illustration shows a green oval microbe Prochlorococcus eating a dead purple microbe that looks like a Cheeto. A few other microbes appear in background.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-CarbonMixing-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)