News + Impact - MIT EAPS

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

Black spheres with the letter “C” on them, representing carbon molecules, float out of the water.

Study: Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere

July 8, 2024

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, 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

The surface of Titan, containing lake-shaped crevices.

Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves

June 19, 2024

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

A photo portrait of Phoebe Lin holding a flute.

Phoebe Lin ’24 awarded 2024 Louis Sudler Prize for excellence in music

June 17, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Side-by-side headshots of Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager.

Sara Seager one of three MIT scientists named Kavli Prize Laureates

June 12, 2024

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

Ask MIT Climate: What are the best- and worst-case scenarios for sea level rise?

June 12, 2024

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

Two graphs side by side showing model predictions of extreme rainfall near Denver, Colorado. The one on the left shows square, poor resolution data. The one on the right is higher resolution.

Making climate models relevant for local decision makers

June 10, 2024

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

A photo of MIT alum Dara Norman wearing a hard had and a yellow reflective vest with her hand leaning on a railing and a blue sky and landscape behind her.

At MIT, Dara Norman ’88 fell in love with stars

June 7, 2024

Categories: Alumni

Babbin, Joint Program tapped for 2024 J-WAFS seed grants

June 3, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

TIL Climate Podcast: Slow carbon, fast carbon

May 30, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Resources, Research

A glacier flows into a fjord in the southwest coast of Greenland.

Microscopic defects in ice influence how massive glaciers flow, study shows

May 30, 2024

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Julien de Wit talks “puffy Jupiters” and new exoplanet questions with NBC Boston

May 30, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Planets

TIL Climate Podcast: Is it safe to store CO2 underground?

May 23, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Resources, Research

Sky is no limit for deaf pilot Sheila Xu ’14

May 21, 2024

Categories: Alumni

Climate Explained: The polar jet stream and polar vortex

May 21, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Robert Stoner speaks to the other two panelists seated to his right.

H2 underground: MIT symposium discusses geologic hydrogen

May 21, 2024

Categories: Natural Resources, Research