News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Ben Weiss appointed Robert R. Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

February 6, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Portraits of Julien de Wit, Matěj Peč, and David McGee edited to be side-by-side

Three EAPS Professors promoted

February 6, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

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

A group of 13 people pose at night next to a small domed telescope observatory. Mount Teide is visible behind them.

MIT Astronomy Field Camp returns to the Teide Observatory for second year

January 26, 2024

Categories: Students + Postdocs

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

Fatima Husain stands in a lab with arm resting on table. The table has a complex machine with a cylindrical base and tubes and wires connected to the table and ceiling.

Unlocking history with geology and genetics

January 25, 2024

Categories: Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

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

Students testify in defense of dark skies

December 18, 2023

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

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 06, 2023

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

A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds

November 30, 2023

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, 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

34 people pose for a photo at the top of a foggy mountain around a wooden sign that reads

Discovering the natural world: DEAPS 2023 in pictures

November 1, 2023

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs