News + Media: Asia & Australasia
![“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)
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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
![Solar panels cover the roof of the CII-Godrej Green Business Center in Hyderabad, India. Photo courtesy of the Natural Resources Defense Council Singh_Thesis.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Singh_Thesis_0.jpg?itok=midyj3_y)
News Release
MIT News | Jun 07, 2017
![Photo: Years of rapid urbanization, rising incomes and transport investment focused on automobiles has led to a significant rise in traffic congestion in Beijing and other Chinese cities. (Source: Li Lou / World Bank) Kishimoto_Transportation_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Kishimoto_Transportation_Photo.jpg?itok=LkdNwwXf)