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![This image is a combination of cloud data from NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-11) and color land cover classification data. The Intertropical Convergence Zone is the band of bright white clouds that cuts across the center of the Earth. Image: NOAA GOES Project Science Office and NASA nasa-goes-earth-doldrums-00_0_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/nasa-goes-earth-doldrums-00_0_WEB.jpg?itok=EdHABoN0)
Study finds ocean circulation, coupled with trade wind changes, efficiently limits shifting of tropical rainfall patterns
Lauren Hinkel | Oceans at MIT July 28, 2017
![“The Indian monsoon is considered a textbook, clearly defined phenomenon, and we think we know a lot about it, but we don’t,” says Senior Research Scientist Chien Wang. An image from Varanasi, India, shows flooding in 2011. MIT-IndianMonsoon.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/MIT-IndianMonsoon.jpg?itok=ZZS2_kxD)
An MIT study published today in Nature Climate Change finds that the Indian summer monsoons, which bring rainfall to the country each year between June and September, have strengthened in the last 15 years over north central India.
![Photo: Ice floes. September, 2006. Arctic Ocean, north of western Russia. Photographer: Mike Dunn, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences. (Credit: NOAA Climate Program Office, NABOS 2006 Expedition) Monier_ERL_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Monier_ERL_Photo_0.jpg?itok=l5f_9f-L)
Spanning Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the former Soviet Union and Northern China, Northern Eurasia is a bellwether for the future of climate change. Having undergone the fastest rate of climate change in the human-populated world in the past few decades, the region has endured dramatic natural...
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MIT Joint Program-affiliated professor of atmospheric chemistry honored for her contributions to atmospheric science
Helen Hill | EAPS July 18, 2017
Susan Solomon, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at MIT, has been awarded the UK Royal Society’s prestigious Bakerian Medal.
![Photo: Cotton growing at Chippokes Plantation State Park (Source: Virginia State Parks) Blanc_EF_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Blanc_EF_Photo.jpg?itok=Hzc6_h2K)
Boston Globe: Study is one of the first to examine how the warming climate could affect the availability and distribution of the water basins that farmers depend on for irrigation (Additional coverage: KJZZ, Environmental Leader)
By Alyssa Meyers
Climate change could deplete some US water basins and dramatically reduce crop yields in some areas by 2050, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A study by a group of MIT scientists and economists is one of the first to examine...
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MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly discusses the complex nature of climate modeling, and the challenges faced by the climate science community in the current political climate
In episode 2 of Climate Conversations, host Rajesh Kasturirangan is joined by ClimateX team members Curt Newton and Laura Howells.
The team explores the role of market forces in tackling climate change and are joined by special guest John Reilly, who discusses the complex nature of...
![“In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,” says Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. “If we mitigate, this could prevent added stress associated with climate change and a severe decrease in runoff in the western United States. But it will be even worse in the future if we don’t do anything at all.” MIT-Future-Irrigation.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/MIT-Future-Irrigation.jpg?itok=ITuqF_6D)
A new study by MIT climate scientists, economists, and agriculture experts finds that certain hotspots in the country will experience severe reductions in crop yields by 2050, due to climate change’s impact on irrigation.
The most adversely affected region, according to the researchers,...
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Study finds large amounts of carbon dioxide, equivalent to yearly U.K. emissions, remain in surface waters
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Based on global climate models and multiple hypotheses, scientists expected a 50-year drying trend to continue unabated into the 21st century, but a new study in Nature Climate Change shows that the trend has reversed.
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A critical factor in projecting energy, water and land use.