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MIT Climate Portal | Oct 07, 2022

Will climate feedback loops push us past a “point of no return”?

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)

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Oct 07, 2022

AGU Fall Meeting frames science as engine of a better future

MIT Joint Program presentations showcase tools and pathways to assess and alleviate regional and global risk

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MIT News | Oct 04, 2022

Small eddies play a big role in feeding ocean microbes

Swirling waters replenish nutrients in open ocean, a new study finds, and could mitigate some climate change effects (MIT News)

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Oct 03, 2022

Tapping the land for climate solutions

Workshop explores sustainable, equitable pathways to transform agriculture, forestry and other land uses into net carbon sinks

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Oct 03, 2022

Pricing carbon, valuing people

New video shows how U.S. climate policies can be designed to enable a just energy transition

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MIT Economics | Sep 30, 2022

Professor Emeritus Richard “Dick” Eckaus, who specialized in development economics, dies at 96

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)

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MIT News | Aug 15, 2022

Stranded assets could exact steep costs on fossil energy producers and investors

Study estimates potential losses by 2050 amid low-carbon energy transition

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Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab | Aug 10, 2022

New J-WAFS-led project combats food insecurity

The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability — a project supported by Community Jameel — will study the implications of climate change on food security as they relate to trade (J-WAFS)