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David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
At the conclusion of MIT’s 10th annual Energy Conference, panelist Cheryl Martin, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E research program, declared, “There is no more important issue than energy.â€
Urging students to work to...
ClimateWire via Scientific American
China's efforts to improve...
Cassie Martin | Oceans at MIT
Understanding how oceans absorb and cycle carbon is crucial to understanding its role in climate change. For approximately 50 years, scientists have known there exists a large pool of dissolved carbon in the deep ocean, but they didn’t know much about it —...
John M. Reilly | Co-director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Worldwide, people are learning to live with less gas, but that's a habit hard to keep.
The price of oil has fallen nearly 60% since peaking in June, and lately there's been a lot of...
Francesca McCaffrey | MIT Energy Initiative
Leaders from the energy industry, government, and the scientific community will gather to discuss the world’s most pressing energy challenges at the annual MIT Energy Club Conference, to be held February 27-28 on the MIT campus. Developed and...
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson | Boston Globe
When a historic blizzard dumps a record-breaking amount of snow on the region, it’s only a matter of time before someone ventures a wry joke about climate change. Maybe there’s an upside to a warmer world, after all? Less shoveling.
But the...
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
Dara Entekhabi, an MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering and of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, is the science team leader of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)...
By David L. Chandler
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MIT News Office
After a career that included work as a White House advisor in the Carter administration and as a partner at Goldman Sachs, Larry Linden SM ’70, PhD ’76 has turned his attention to what he says is the most...
China Energy and Climate Project Director Professor Valerie J. Karplus appeared on Channel NewsAsia to discuss the impacts and broader significance of the Korean emissions trading system...