News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Lyle Nelson at a desert field site.

3 Questions: Meet Lyle Nelson, EAPS newest faculty member

October 25, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments

Photo illustration of a spacecraft with large solar panels hovering over a reddish striped moon with planet Jupiter in the background.

Q&A: How the Europa Clipper will set cameras on a distant icy moon

October 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Ruben Juanes named American Physical Society Fellow

October 10, 2024

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

Nicole Xike Nie awarded 2025 Nier Prize

October 2, 2024

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

Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

September 25, 2024

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

Closeup photo of Ronald Prinn at a lectern

3 Questions: The past, present, and future of sustainability science

September 12, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers

a picture of the star AB Aurigae; it has a spiraling blue center with a red ring surrounding it.

3 Questions: Evidence for planetary formation through gravitational instability

September 04, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Rogier Braakman with the text

Rogier Braakman awarded Hypothesis Fund seed grant

August 28, 2024

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

portrait of Noelle Selin

Selin to lead new MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

August 5, 2024

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

Earth and its atmosphere from space.

Scientists find a human “fingerprint” in the upper troposphere’s increasing ozone

August 2, 2024

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

Moon dust falls through the hands of an astronaut.

Scientists pin down the origins of the moon’s tenuous atmosphere

August 2, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Andrew Babbin named a mission director for the Climate Project at MIT

July 24, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Photo of the dimly lit interior of a large factory.

China-based emissions of three potent climate-warming greenhouse gases spiked in past decade

July 18, 2024

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

Professor Richard Binzel smiles while holding a meteorite fragment next to a plaque commemorating the day it fell in Johnstown, Colorado, in 1924.

Richard Binzel helps Colorado town throw 100th birthday party for meteorite

July 17, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media

Graphic depicting the idea of a more sustainable world.

Upgrading computational tools for sustainable development

July 16, 2024

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

Pictures of Taylor and Lisa Perron next to each other, with the cover of the children’s picture book “All the Rocks We Love” superimposed on top.

Q&A: Helping young readers explore curiosity about rocks through discovery and play

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers

Alt text: The James Webb Space Telescope points to several TRAPPIST planets scattered on top of a map background with a red dotted line leading around them.

Roadmap details how to improve exoplanet exploration using the JWST

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A portrait of Susan Solomon next to a photo of the cover of her book,

Q&A: What past environmental success can teach us about solving the climate crisis

July 12, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers

Cargo ship in ocean.

Study finds health risks in switching ships from diesel to ammonia fuel

July 11, 2024

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

Still from a video of David McGee giving a talk on stage, holding a microphone.

Watch: Messages About Our Climate Future from the Deep Past

July 1, 2024

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