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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

Wind turbines on the top of a hill.

A healthy wind

December 02, 2022

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

Earth in black space, with constellations and data wave.

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

November 16, 2022

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

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.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources, study finds

November 3, 2022

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

Photo of pedestrians at a tree-lined intersection, all seen through a polluted haze in Anyang City, China

Coordinating climate and air-quality policies to improve public health

October 26, 2022

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

3 Questions: O’Gorman awarded the 2023 Haurwitz Lectureship by the American Meteorological Society

September 2, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Natural Hazards

MIT team wins 2022 weather forecasting competition

May 3, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Community

Topographies that talk

April 27, 2022

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Profile

Looking forward to forecast the risks of a changing climate

April 15, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Computing our climate future

April 13, 2022

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

April 7, 2022

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

Ocean vital signs

April 5, 2022

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

MIT Climate Grand Challenges: Ice Sheets and Sea-Level Prediction

February 16, 2022

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

Climate modeling confirms historical records showing rise in hurricane activity

December 2, 2021

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research

MIT makes strides on climate action plan

November 12, 2021

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach