News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Exploring the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition with Lyle Nelson and the GSA

August 13, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Life + Environments

Richard Teague named 2026 NSF CAREER recipient

August 10, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

MIT's Great Dome

MIT projects, including one led by Laurent Demanet, selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

July 23, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A sequence of images of Mars in crescent phase growing larger that were taken as the Psyche spacecraft approached Mars.

Psyche spacecraft delivers Mars flyby data, detailed look at Mars’ magnetic signatures

July 17, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Noelle Selin named as TEPCO Professor

July 1, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A portrait of Raymond Pierrehumbert next to an image of the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Q&A with Professor of the Practice Raymond Pierrehumbert: The geology of planetary atmospheres

June 29, 2026

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

Fossil wall of various species.

What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt?

June 24, 2026

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

A portrait of Susan Solomon

Susan Solomon named 2026 Tang Prize laureate

June 15, 2026

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

As cities grow around weather stations, does the hot pavement skew our measurements of global warming?

June 10, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Side-by-side portraits of Matej Pec and Richard Teague.

Matěj Peč and Richard Teague promoted

June 9, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

An air pollution meter being overrun with wildfire smoke.

3 Questions: Evaluating hourly air pollution forecasts in a time of more frequent wildfires

May 12, 2026

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

Kristin Bergmann receives Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

May 6, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Ben Weiss elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 23, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Oceans and climate: Raffaele Ferrari on Climate Reveal podcast

April 20, 2026

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

Earth’s atmosphere.

A regulatory loophole could delay ozone recovery by years

April 16, 2026

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

Carl Wunsch honored with Frontiers of Knowledge Award

April 2, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A woman with two dogs step into a pond to cool off.

Adam Schlosser in the Boston Globe: How might climate change affect Cambridge and Somerville?

March 19, 2026

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

CNN: New data shows asteroid 2024 YR4 will narrowly miss the moon

March 12, 2026

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

An asteroid speeds towards the moon.

3 Questions: Fortifying our planetary defenses

March 12, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Richard Teague named Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 2026 AAS meeting

March 11, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets