News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Earth split open in center showing inner structure layer-by-layer

Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust

October 9, 2023

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

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

September 28, 2023

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

Photo of a power plant with two smokestacks in a desert area on a partly cloudy day.

Improving US air quality, equitably

September 27, 2023

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

A black NASA orb-shaped capsule in the Utah desert during daytime.

3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth

September 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

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.

Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile “dark earth”

September 20, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

How forests can cut carbon, restore ecosystems, and create jobs

July 27, 2023

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Greg Fournier on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 3: Decoding the tree of life

July 17, 2023

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

The North Sea via satellite. The dark blue water has swirls of teal, and Germany peeks out from the bottom right.

Study: The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change

July 12, 2023

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

Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.

Studying rivers from worlds away

July 10, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

EAPS welcomes new faculty members Nicole Xike Nie and Talia Tamarin-Brodsky

July 5, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Timur Cinay sits on a rocky outcrop on the sea, smiling at the camera while the sun warms the ocean colors.

Seeing the world in high definition

June 26, 2023

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

Sensing the world around us

June 26, 2023

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors

An aerial view of Mauna Loa showing the volcano in pinks, yellows and purples.

New seismic imaging technique gives fresh look at Earth’s mantle

June 21, 2023

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

A helicopter drops water on a vast, smokey forest fire

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

June 09, 2023

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

Brent Minchew smiles at the camera in front of an expanse of snow and ice.

Brent Minchew promoted to Associate Professor

June 8, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Greg Fournier, Fatima Husain, and Mick Follows stand together in front of a poster session.

Fatima Husain named 2023 Graduate Woman of Excellence

June 7, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

2023 EAPS Community and Student Awards

June 5, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community

Commencement 2023 – Meet the EAPS Senior Class

June 5, 2023

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

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.

River erosion can shape fish evolution, study suggests

May 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

MIT team wins weather forecasting competition second year in a row

May 18, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs