Joint Program In the News
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
A gathering of MIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni took part Thursday in series of talks, polling questions, and brainstorming sessions aimed at spurring the whole MIT community to engage in the process of making the Institute a world leader, role...
by Kelsey Damrad | MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
As severe weather hazards continue to afflict parts of the country to historic extremes, Professor Dara Entekhabi of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a team of NASA scientists...
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its capacity to trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere for a long time. The gas can originate from lakes and swamps, natural-gas pipelines, deep-sea vents, and livestock. Understanding the sources...
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 Audrey Resutek | MIT Joint...
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...