News + Media: Regional Analysis
![Researchers have found there is often a strong case for building relatively modest, incremental additions to water infrastructure in advanced countries, rather than expensive larger-scale projects that may be needed only rarely. Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT MIT-water-access_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/MIT-water-access_WEB.jpg?itok=57Mih2MR)
![A new study shows that without significant reductions in carbon emissions, deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This map shows the maximum wet-bulb temperatures (which combine temperature and humidity) that have been reached in this region since 1979. Courtesy of the researchers MIT-Heat-Wave.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-Heat-Wave.jpg?itok=VU7OMTcr)
![“The Indian monsoon is considered a textbook, clearly defined phenomenon, and we think we know a lot about it, but we don’t,” says Senior Research Scientist Chien Wang. An image from Varanasi, India, shows flooding in 2011. MIT-IndianMonsoon.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/MIT-IndianMonsoon.jpg?itok=ZZS2_kxD)
![Photo: Ice floes. September, 2006. Arctic Ocean, north of western Russia. Photographer: Mike Dunn, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences. (Credit: NOAA Climate Program Office, NABOS 2006 Expedition) Monier_ERL_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Monier_ERL_Photo_0.jpg?itok=l5f_9f-L)
![Photo: Cotton growing at Chippokes Plantation State Park (Source: Virginia State Parks) Blanc_EF_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Blanc_EF_Photo.jpg?itok=Hzc6_h2K)
In The News
Boston Globe | Jul 14, 2017
![“In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,” says Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. “If we mitigate, this could prevent added stress associated with climate change and a severe decrease in runoff in the western United States. But it will be even worse in the future if we don’t do anything at all.” MIT-Future-Irrigation.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/MIT-Future-Irrigation.jpg?itok=ITuqF_6D)
News Release
MIT News | Jul 11, 2017
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Jul 01, 2017
Based on global climate models and multiple hypotheses, scientists expected a 50-year drying trend to continue unabated into the 21st century, but a new study in Nature Climate Change shows that the trend has reversed.
![China's emissions trading scheme will target coal power plants, like this one in Tianjin. But the restrictions have not yet been made clear (Photo: Shubert Ciencia) Power_Plant_(Tianjin,_China).jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Power_Plant_%28Tianjin%2C_China%29.jpg?itok=UDweEYa5)
Commentary
Climate Home | Jun 27, 2017