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A map shows a large red splotch with blurry yellow border, the ozone hole, on top of the South Pole, on decorative background.

Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

March 8, 2023

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

Aviva Intveld, leaning against a wall and smiling.

Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar

March 3, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

A bright bluish light, which is debris, shoots across the black background, with light trailing behind it.

3Q: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission

March 2, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Photo of a row of smokestacks. Two are belching smoke into a cloudy blue sky.

Improving health outcomes by targeting climate and air pollution simultaneously

February 23, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research

To move or not to move?

February 22, 2023

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

Featured video: Investigating our blue ocean planet

February 15, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

Instagram users see Women Doing Science

February 08, 2023

Categories: Research, Students + Postdocs

Student Spotlight: Ciara Willis on balancing ocean research and fieldwork

February 1, 2023

Categories: Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Chalkboards, beakers, and cookies: A memory of Frank Dudas

January 25, 2023

Categories: Community

5 vertical photos show granular objects: marbles, glass beads, seaglass, rocks, and plastic beads.

Moving water and earth

January 11, 2023

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

Aviva Intveld, smiling and leaning on a railing overlooking the Charles River with the Boston skyline in the background.

Looking to the past to prepare for an uncertain future

January 11, 2023

Categories: Community, Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

3 Questions: Tanja Bosak on being a Fundamental Science Investigator

January 3, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments

The steps and front entrance of MIT at 77 Massachusetts Avenue is pictured. There are wreaths and string lights above each of the three doors.

MIT’s departments, labs, and centers celebrate the holidays

December 23, 2022

Categories: Community

Q&A: Zhendong Zhang, SEG Geophysics Reviewer of the Year, on getting into the peer review process

December 19, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Nori Nakata receives 2023 IUGG Early Career Scientist Award

December 12, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions

Wind turbines on the top of a hill.

A healthy wind

December 2, 2022

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

MIT Astronomy Field Camp to start again in 2023

November 23, 2022

Categories: Community, Planets

Earth in black space, with constellations and data wave.

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

November 16, 2022

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

Skylar Larsen sits indoors, arm on railing, with windows and a wire wall in background.

Expanding horizons through astronomy and art

November 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

What Do Earthquake Forecasting and Cancer Treatment Have in Common?

November 8, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Profile