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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...
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To assess long-range risks to food, water, energy and other critical natural resources, decision-makers often rely on Earth-system models capable of producing reliable projections of regional and global environmental changes spanning decades. A key component of such models is the representation...
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Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev provides an "Expert Perspective" in long-term climate strategies for the World Resources Institute
The UN Paris Agreement has established a target of keeping the increase in the global average surface temperature to “well below” 2°C relative to preindustrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature rise to 1.5°C. As greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise around the...
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But only if the world acts together, says MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly in a Daily Beast news story
This summer, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a 500-page environmental impact statement.
Buried within the pages, it snuck in a well-known but horrifying climate prediction: At their current pace, global temperatures will rise seven degrees Fahrenheit by...
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