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Sara Seager stands with Markus Rex and Wolfgang Busch, holding their NOMIS Awards.

Sara Seager honored with 2025 NOMIS Award

December 19, 2025

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

Post-COP30, more aggressive policies needed to cap global warming at 1.5 C

December 17, 2025

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

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

An image taken by the Cassini spacecraft of the geysers on Enceladus.

NASA selects project investigating ocean worlds and organic molecules in the search for life beyond Earth

December 3, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

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

John Marshall honored with postdoctoral mentoring award

November 14, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Richard Binzel standing next to Donald W. Landry and receiving a plaque award for the Barry Prize.

Richard Binzel awarded 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement

November 13, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

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

Tom Herring stands in front of a large dam.

Geology Bites: Tom Herring talks High-Precision Geodesy

October 20, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards

Artist’s illustration of early Earth with fire, lava, volcanos, and meteors.

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth”

October 14, 2025

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

A selfie of Laurent Demanet in his office.

Laurent Demanet appointed co-director of MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering

October 07, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, 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

Colorful rings surrounding a star with lines weaving up and down through them.

Astronomers reveal planet-building’s secret ingredient: magnetism

September 12, 2025

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

Ryan Woosley in an orange suit and on a large stretch of snow in Antarctica.

3 Questions: Ryan Woosley on changes in ocean acidity and carbon

September 1, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

Boston skyline with decorative background.

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction

August 26, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research