News + Impact - MIT EAPS

A map of a section of Japan, including the Noto Peninsula, showing two pieces of information: one, the intensity of the January 1st earthquake getting smaller further away from the epicenter found off the coast of the Peninsula, and two, the slip amplitude, which has two intense clusters near the epicenter of 6 meters.

Q&A: What sets the recent Japan earthquake apart from others?

January 24, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Natural Hazards

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

January 17, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Three separate photos of Roger Levy, Pulin Lee, and David McGee cropped together.

David McGee one of three honored with 2023 School of Science teaching prizes

January 10, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

December 28, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

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

December 13, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty

A civil discourse on climate change

November 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach, Faculty

Climate Explained: Enhanced rock weathering

November 09, 2023

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

Robert Van der Drift poses in front of the Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building.

Robert van der Hilst to step down as head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

November 6, 2023

Categories: Community, Faculty

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

November 3, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Inaugural Fast Forward Faculty Fund grants aim to spur new work on climate change and deepen collaboration at MIT

November 1, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

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

October 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

With Psyche, a journey to an ancient asteroid is set to begin

October 11, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Faculty, Planets, Research

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

October 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Earth split open in center showing inner structure layer-by-layer

Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust

October 09, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Ask MIT Climate: What is the risk that CO2 stored underground after carbon capture will escape again?

September 28, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, 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, Health of the Planet, Research

A black NASA orb-shaped capsule in the Utah desert during daytime.

3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth

September 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

An Amazonian village with about 20 huts that form a large a ring around an empty, brown, circular area. Lots of trees are around the village.

Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile “dark earth”

September 20, 2023

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

Greg Fournier on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 3: Decoding the tree of life

July 17, 2023

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