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Yes: although electric cars' batteries make them more carbon-intensive to manufacture than gas cars, they more than make up for it by driving much cleaner under nearly any conditions. (MIT Climate Portal) (Additional Coverage: Travel Tomorrow)
Tripping the Earth's climate feedback loops could bring us rapid warming that would be hugely damaging in the near term. But over the longer term, our planet can regulate even truly gigantic changes to the atmosphere. (MIT Climate Portal)
Swirling waters replenish nutrients in open ocean, a new study finds, and could mitigate some climate change effects (MIT News)
Deeply respected advisor, educator, and mentor was a founding member of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and committed to helping others rise out of poverty (MIT Economics)