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Ask MIT Climate: Is today’s climate change similar to the natural warming between ice ages?

February 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Susan Solomon stands on a stage in front of a blue background with a microphone. She is giving an acceptance speech and is holding a gold trophy in one hand.

Susan Solomon wins VinFuture Award for Female Innovators

January 26, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate

January 24, 2024

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

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 + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards

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

January 17, 2024

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

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

December 28, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, 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 + Senior Researchers

Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems

December 6, 2023

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

A civil discourse on climate change

November 20, 2023

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

Climate Explained: Enhanced rock weathering

November 9, 2023

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

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 + Senior Researchers, Research

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

November 01, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

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

October 20, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

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

October 11, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, 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

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

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

October 9, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, 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 + 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