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MIT News Office | Oct 09, 2013
Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
The structure of the auditing business appears problematic: Typically, major companies pay auditors to examine their books under the so-called “third-party” audit system. But when an auditing firm’s revenues come directly from its clients, the auditors have an...
News Release
UN Environment | Oct 07, 2013
International leaders have gathered this week in Kumamoto, Japan to sign a landmark treaty to curb the use of mercury. The treaty, named the Minamata Convention after a Japanese city where serious health damage occurred from mercury pollution in the mid-20th Century, is both wide-ranging and...
In The News
MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Sep 30, 2013
The Sverdrup Gold Medal is "granted to researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific knowledge of interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere." The award, in the form of a medallion, will be presented at the AMS Annual Meeting to be held on 2–6 February 2014 in Atlanta, GA...
News Release
MIT News | Sep 27, 2013
Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
Nitrous oxide is commonly associated with laughing gas — the pleasantly benign vapor that puts patients at ease in the dentist’s chair. But outside the dentist’s office, the gas plays a serious role in the planet’s warming climate.
After carbon dioxide and methane,...
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
The Energy Collective | Sep 24, 2013
China’s deployment of renewable electricity generation – starting with hydropower, then wind, and now biomass and solar – is massive. China leads the world in installed renewable energy capacity (both including and excluding hydro) and has sustained annual wind additions in excess of 10 gigawatts (...
Sep 20, 2013
"Using Land To Mitigate Climate Change: Hitting the Target, Recognizing the Trade-offs". John Reilly presents at the Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences.
News Release
MIT News Office | Sep 19, 2013
Alli Gold Roberts
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Yesterday, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development released the 2013 Trade and Environment Review. The report encourages...
In The News
Nature News and Comment | Sep 17, 2013
Environmental controls designed to prevent leaks of methane from newly drilled natural gas wells are effective, a study has found — but emissions from existing wells in production are much higher than previously believed.
The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Recent Event
MIT Energy Night | Sep 12, 2013
The MIT Energy Night is a celebration of the ingenuity, innovation, and imagination of MIT faculty, researchers, students, and alumni. Hosted annually at the MIT Museum and organized entirely by students, the MIT Energy Night features over 70 interactive poster presentations from every energy...
Sep 09, 2013
Stephanie Dutkiewicz presents at the MIT Future of the Oceans Symposium.