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Ask MIT Climate: How do we know how long carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere?

January 17, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Paul O’Gorman on using generative AI in climate modeling at MIT Generative AI Week

December 13, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems

December 6, 2023

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

A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds

November 30, 2023

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

A civil discourse on climate change

November 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Climate Explained: Enhanced rock weathering

November 9, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research

Ask MIT Climate: Why do we blame climate change on carbon dioxide, when water vapor is a much more common greenhouse gas?

November 03, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Ask MIT Climate: Will climate change drive humans extinct or destroy civilization?

October 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

TIL Climate Podcast: Don’t throw away your refrigerator

October 19, 2023

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Research

Ask MIT Climate: What would happen to the climate if we had much lower CO2 levels?

October 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, 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

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

July 27, 2023

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, 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

Sensing the world around us

June 26, 2023

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

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 + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Natural Hazards, Research

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.”

Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles

May 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

Aerial view of MIT campus building entrance with Boston skyline in the distance.

3 Questions: New MIT major and its role in fighting climate change

April 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Community

A map shows a large red splotch with blurry yellow border, the ozone hole, on top of the South Pole, on decorative background.

Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

March 8, 2023

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

Featured video: Investigating our blue ocean planet

February 15, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research