News + Media: Earth Systems
![“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
![MIT climate scientists have found that the ocean’s export efficiency, or the fraction of total plankton growth that is sinking to its depths, is decreasing, due mainly to rising global temperatures. (MIT News) MIT-OceanCarbon.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-OceanCarbon.jpg?itok=F4lmoVun)
Around Campus
MIT News | Jul 06, 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.
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Commentary
Washington Post | Jun 22, 2017
![Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left); Christiana Figueres (left), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); Laurent Fabius (second right), Minister for Foreign Affairs of France and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) and François Hollande (right), President of France celebrate after the historic adoption of Paris Agreement on climate change. Paris_Agreement_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Paris_Agreement_WEB.jpg?itok=5u8vBPLf)
![Photo: Kenneth Strzepek with Tefera Deribew, Minister of Agriculture, Ethiopia (Photo by Brent Boehlert) Strzepek_Ethiopia_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Strzepek_Ethiopia_Photo.jpg?itok=oburtm_Y)
![April 14, 2016 - WASHINGTON DC., 2016 World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings. Turning the Paris Climate Agreement into Action. A high-level panel address their commitments to move from the Paris Agreement to implementation. (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/) Reilly_WashPo_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Reilly_WashPo_Photo.jpg?itok=CaKWKDwV)
Commentary
Washington Post | Jun 08, 2017
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In The News
WGBH All Things Considered | Jun 05, 2017
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