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MIT News | Jan 26, 2015
MIT professor is lead scientist on three-year mission to study how soil, water, and carbon interact.
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)...
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MIT News | Jan 26, 2015
Alumnus and prominent conservationist Larry Linden calls for carbon tax to combat global warming."
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...
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Between the Lines | Jan 22, 2015
Valerie J. Karplus, Director of the China Energy and Climate Project, discusses the impacts and broader significance of the just-launched Korean emissions trading system on Channel NewsAsia’s Between the Lines.
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...
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Nature Climate Change | Jan 16, 2015
Anna Petherick writes for Nature Climate Change about emissions pledges from the United States and China for, including emissions projections from China Energy and Climate Project.
Anna Petherick writes for Nature Climate Change about emissions pledges from the United States and China for, including emissions projections from China Energy and Climate Project.
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EE News | Jan 15, 2015
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Amanda Peterka | E&E reporter
Bioenergy production would boom and spur steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions if a global price is slapped on carbon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say in a report released today.
Examining bioenergy production under a $...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
Link to Article | Dec 10, 2014
The announcement of a joint pledge to cut emissions between the world's two largest carbon emitters: the United States and China, made global headlines when it was announced in November. In this interview, Valerie Karplus, an asssistant professor in MIT's Sloan School of Managment, discusses the details of the deal.
by Jesse Jenkins | The Energy Collective
Jesse Jenkins: Even before world leaders descended on Lima, Peru this week for United Nations-sponsored climate negotiations, climate diplomacy made global headlines with the joint announcement of a partnership between the world's two...
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Link to Article | Dec 03, 2014
Study shows that the effects of smaller eruptions have been underestimated in climate models.
by David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
New research shows that relatively small volcanic eruptions can increase aerosol particles in the atmosphere, temporarily mitigating the global warming caused by greenhouse gases. The impact of such smaller eruptions has been underestimated in...
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MIT News | Dec 02, 2014
MIT researcher Sergey Paltsev discusses the outlook for LNG trading over the next several decades.
Until recently, most natural gas trade has been limited to the regional scale due to the challenges of transporting gas over long distances. Over the last decade, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)—an option that reduces the volume of gas about 600 times allowing for transportation by ship—has...
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MIT Technology Review | Nov 18, 2014
MIT China Energy and Climate Program Director Valerie Karplus talks with MIT’s Tech Review about when China’s emissions might peak.
By Mike Orcutt | MIT Technology Review
China may put a stop to growing carbon dioxide emissions earlier than expected, but how quickly they start coming down is also important.
In an agreement announced last week, China and the United States, which together account for...
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Link to Article | Nov 13, 2014
MIT News interviews Chris Knittel, who co-authored a new article in Science evaluating government's proposed emissions policy for power plants.
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
With cap-and-trade legislation on greenhouse-gas emissions having stalled in Congress in 2010, the Obama administration has taken a different approach to climate policy: It has used the mandate of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose a...