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New method enables a more comprehensive assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture
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New modeling strategy could improve understanding of complex multi-sector interactions with the Earth system and provide a powerful risk assessment tool
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MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly explains why U.S. power sector emissions declined in 2017 despite regulation rollbacks (WITF)
Written by Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania | Oct 25, 2018 12:18 PM
At an oil and gas conference in Pittsburgh Wednesday, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler touted the Trump administration's moves to roll back over 70 environmental regulations, telling the crowd the...
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An economist and policy experts respond to a natural-gas worker’s worries that the fight against climate change will hurt Americans like him.
Measuring the greenhouse and ozone-depleting gas composition of the Earth’s atmosphere continuously for the past 40 years through a global network of sophisticated monitoring stations, the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE, formerly known as the Global Atmospheric Gases...
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) expert Howard Herzog, an MITEI Senior Research Engineer and Joint Program affiliate, offers his perspective in The Conversation
In a much-anticipated report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the world will need to take dramatic and drastic steps to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Researchers and experts attend African Sustainable Development Conference at MIT
Taylor De Leon | Civil and Environmental Engineering October 19, 2018
Climate change, a surging population, and increasing demand for food, housing and natural resources present Africa and the world with extraordinary challenges.
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Airborne particulates, or aerosols, produced by coal-burning power plants and other human activities may help offset global warming, but they may also reduce rainfall in regions that are already water-stressed.
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Long-term melting may lead to release of huge volumes of cold, fresh water into the North Atlantic, impacting global climate
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office October 17, 2018
The Beaufort Gyre is an enormous, 600-mile-wide pool of swirling cold, fresh water in the Arctic Ocean, just north of Alaska and Canada. In the winter, this current is covered by a thick cap of ice. Each summer, as the ice melts away, the...