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![Photo by Flickr user ianholton, sourced from Flickr - under Creative Commons license Beijing, China - Sun and smog in a hazy orange-brown sky.](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/beijing-hazy_ianholton_Flickr-CC-WEB.jpg?itok=T_WDp-M1)
In The News
Scientific American | Jul 26, 2019
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![This April 25, 2019 photo shows the Oak Creek Power Plant and Elm Road Generating Station in Oak Creek, Wis., near Milwaukee. Environmentalists oppose a proposal by We Energies to change the way mercury is measured in water that it discharges to Lake Michigan from the Power Plant and Elm Road Generating Station, A new study finds mercury in Wisconsin lakes could be harder to manage as climate change causes fluctuations in lake levels. (Sarah Whites-Koditschek/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism via AP) Selin_AP_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Selin_AP_WEB.jpg?itok=xgzj2S3t)
In The News
Associated Press | Jun 15, 2019
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News Brief
MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | May 29, 2019
![A new MIT study finds that over the coming decades climate change will affect the ocean’s color, intensifying its blue regions and its green ones. Image: NASA Earth Observatory DSC03014_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-Climate-Color_0_WEB.jpg?itok=ueR9WftI)
![Gretchen Daily presents the 17th annual Kendall Lecture. Photo: Vicki McKenna gretchen-daily-mit-kendall-lecture-2019_0_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/gretchen-daily-mit-kendall-lecture-2019_0_WEB.jpg?itok=wDP36f7R)
![ADVANCED GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC GASES EXPERIMENT (AGAGE) Prinn_Nature_TechReview.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Prinn_Nature_TechReview.jpg?itok=dT0TtM4Z)
In The News
Technology Review | May 22, 2019
![Photo: Since 2013, annual emissions of a banned, ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) have increased by nearly 8,000 tons from eastern China. That year South Korea's Gosan GAW Regional Station, on the southwestern tip of Jeju Island, started detecting spikes in CFC-11 levels drifting in from eastern Asia. (Source: The Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) Prinn_Nature_TechReview.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Prinn_Nature_TechReview.jpg?itok=Q4PzwjhY)