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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

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