News + Impact - MIT EAPS

TIL Climate Podcast: Hasn’t the climate changed before?

March 6, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

An image from the ozone layer in September 2024 is in front of smaller images showing the evolution of the ozone layer from 1979-2018.

Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs

March 5, 2025

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

Darlene Ketten SM ’79 is making waves in hearing research—from whales to humans

February 28, 2025

Categories: Alumni

Brent Minchew on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 14: Putting a glacier in its place

February 25, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards

EAPS senior Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli one of three 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars for MIT

February 24, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

A close up shot of an asteroid sample suspended in a drop of water on a microscope slide.

Asteroid sample collected by NASA mission contains building blocks of life

February 24, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research

Side-by-side headshots of Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay.

Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay appointed to named professorships

February 12, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Andrew Babbin sits inside with Boston skyline in background.

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

February 6, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Profile

David McGee named head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

February 5, 2025

Categories: Community

On the left, an image of fiber optic cables plugged into a data center rack. On the right, a photo of Hilary Chang and John Morgante posing by a computer set up in a room filled with wires

How telecommunications cables can image the ground beneath us

February 4, 2025

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Michael Person stands at the front of a small lecture hall with a presentation behind him about the 2025 MIT Astronomy Field Camp.

MIT Astronomy Field Camp students share their scientific results at the IAC

January 27, 2025

Categories: Community

Side-by-side portraits of Yanchong (Karen) Zheng and Sai Ravela.

Sai Ravela earns J-WAFS grant for solutions-oriented sustainability project in India

January 13, 2025

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

Rendering shows the Perseverance on the rocky brown surface of Mars. The Perseverance resembles a go-cart and has 6 wheels and an arm extending that houses the drill. The top of the Perseverance has a long neck and a camera on top.

PNAS Special Edition – The Scientific Value of Mars Sample Return

January 7, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Planets

Headshots of Oliver Jagoutz and Shuhei Ono

Oliver Jagoutz named new director of ERL; Shuhei Ono to take over as chair of PGGG

January 06, 2025

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

Cartoony illustration of a large green bean-shaped Prochlorococcus shedding bits of itself, as pink SAR11 happily sleep and eat.

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

January 3, 2025

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

EAPS alumnus R. Lawrence Edwards ’76 awarded National Medal of Science for climate insights

January 3, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Awards + Promotions, Community

What would happen if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapses? How likely is it?

January 2, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope shining light on a population of small asteroids.

MIT astronomers find the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt

December 9, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

A green hydrogen production pipeline.

New climate chemistry model finds “non-negligible” climate impacts of potential hydrogen fuel leakage

December 6, 2024

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research

EAPS presentation schedule at AGU 2024

December 4, 2024

Categories: Community