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On March 8 in Helsinki, Finland, MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev delivered a keynote address on energy policy and the new U.S. administration at a seminar on oil and geopolitics hosted by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and World Energy Council Finland. In his...
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Judges of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2017 Student Poster Competition selected a poster by MIT Joint Program research assistant Michael Davidson as the winner in the Social Sciences category. Davidson’s poster was one of 15 presented in that category at the...
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MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev delivers a keynote address on energy policy and the new U.S. administration at a seminar on oil and geopolitics hosted by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and World Energy Council Finland.
Paltsev’s presentation was covered...
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'This is not a view shared by us': After MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen writes letter urging Trump to withdraw from climate accord, faculty responds.
Related coverage: Climate@MIT, Boston Globe
This story was updated on March 7 to include a statement from Richard Lindzen.
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In September 2015, the German Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest car producer, admitted to having installed “defeat devices” in 11 million diesel cars sold worldwide between 2008 and 2015. The devices were designed to detect and adapt to laboratory tests, making the cars appear to comply with...
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Algorithm produces more precise projections of extreme precipitation events
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A dozen MIT students and community members clamber into a van on a bright morning in late January. There’s palpable excitement as the van drives down Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and crosses onto Portland Street. The chilly weather and light snow does nothing to dampen the group’s...
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Maria T. Zuber, vice president for research and the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, recently published an op-ed in The Washington Post that described her personal history growing up in eastern Pennsylvania’s coal country and argued for a strategy to support coal industry workers as the...
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MIT is proud to announce the launch of a new online publication, Climate@MIT, which reports on exciting climate science research on campus and in the field.